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escape
noun as in breaking away; getaway
Strongest matches
breakout, departure, desertion, disappearance, flight, freedom, liberation, outbreak, rescue, withdrawal
Strong matches
AWOL, abdication, avoidance, beat, bolt, break, bypassing, circumvention, decampment, deliverance, dodging, ducking, elopement, elusion, elusiveness, evasion, evasiveness, extrication, fadeout, hegira, lam, leave, out, powder, release, retreat, shunning, sidestepping, spring
Example Sentences
Inside the ruins of an abandoned house, Kolya and two comrades were practising how to escape them.
After being liberated by the British army in May 1945, Mr Goldberg and his mother moved to the UK the following year to be reunited with his father who escaped just before the war began.
It’s the world, which we can’t escape even in bed at night.
The woman got in the suspect’s car and he drove her to an apartment complex, but she was able to escape.
The CIA’s plan called for the invaders to escape to the mountains if things went wrong on the beach.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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