Definitions for scape

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Spelling: [skeyp]

IPA: /skeɪp/

Scape is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 83 anagrams from letters in scape (aceps).

Definitions for scape

noun

1. Botany. a leafless peduncle rising from the ground.
2. Zoology. a stemlike part, as the shaft of a feather.
3. Architecture. the shaft of a column.
4. Entomology. the stemlike basal segment of the antenna of certain insects.

noun, verb (used with or without object)

1. escape.

Origin of scape

1595-1605; Latin scāpus stalk Doric Greek skâpos, akin to Attic skêptron staff, scepter

Examples for scape

Much better: Use every man after his desert, and who shall 'scape whipping?

The Cavalier is disguised in the garb of a forester, as you see, but he could not 'scape us.

Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping?

There'll be a kerridge for you; and whatever you want, you just 'scape out and we'll 'tend to it.

Certainly we have such kings, but all of them 'scape whipping and hanging.

They are escapism embodied, a dreamland, a scape of fantasy, the vale of telenovellas.

If he scape this age, he has scaped a tempest, and may live to be a man.

Unlike the kneelers, they do not bow and scape to any man, not even the King-Beyond-the-Wall.

Thou know'st I can scape now, that's all I look for: I'll leave.

Then they thrust wide the gate to make their scape with speed.