escape
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(noun) the act of escaping physically; "he made his escape from the mental hospital"; "the canary escaped from its cage"; "his flight was an indication of his guilt" |
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Synonyms: flight |
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Related Words: Underground Railroad, Underground Railway, break, breakout, evasion, exodus, gaolbreak, getaway, hegira, hejira, jailbreak, lam, prison-breaking, prisonbreak, running away |
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(noun) a means or way of escaping; "hard work was his escape from worry"; "they installed a second hatch as an escape"; "their escape route" |
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Related Words: agency, means, way |
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(noun) an avoidance of danger or difficulty; "that was a narrow escape" |
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Related Words: avoidance, dodging, shunning, turning away |
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(noun) an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy; "he escaped into romantic novels"; "his alcohol problem was a form of escapism" |
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Synonyms: escapism |
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Related Words: diversion, recreation |
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(verb) run away from confinement; "The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison" |
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Synonyms: break loose, get away |
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Related Words: bilk, break, break away, break out, elude, escape, escape from, evade, flee, fly, get away, run away, shake, shake off, slip, take flight, throw off |
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(verb) remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion; "We escaped to our summer house for a few days"; "The president of the company never manages to get away during the summer" |
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Synonyms: get away |
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Related Words: break loose, escape, get away |
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(noun) the unwanted discharge of a fluid from some container; "they tried to stop the escape of gas from the damaged pipe"; "he had to clean up the leak" |
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Synonyms: leak, leakage, outflow |
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Related Words: discharge, outpouring, run |
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(noun) a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild |
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Related Words: flora, plant, plant life |
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(noun) nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do; "his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible"; "that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive" |
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Synonyms: dodging, evasion |
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Related Words: carelessness, circumvention, escape mechanism, goldbricking, goofing off, malingering, neglect, negligence, nonperformance, shirking, skulking, slacking, soldiering, tax evasion |
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(verb) fail to experience; "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane" |
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Synonyms: miss |
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Related Words: avoid |
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(verb) be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by; "What you are seeing in him eludes me" |
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Synonyms: elude |
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Related Words: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, defy, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, puzzle, refuse, resist, stupefy, stupify, trounce |
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(verb) escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action; "She gets away with murder!" "I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities" |
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Synonyms: get away, get by, get off, get out |
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Related Words: avoid |
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(noun) a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level |
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Synonyms: escape cock, escape valve, relief valve, safety valve |
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Related Words: regulator, valve |
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