escape

Definition for escape

noun as in breaking away; getaway

Strongest matches

breakout, departure, desertion, disappearance, flight, freedom, liberation, outbreak, rescue, withdrawal

Strong matches

abdication, avoidance, AWOL, 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

Weak matches

eschewal, runaround

verb as in break away from

Strongest matches

avoid, depart, disappear, dodge, elude, emerge, evade, flee, fly, leave, run, slip, slip away, vanish

Strong matches

abscond, bolt, circumvent, decamp, desert, double, duck, elope, pass, shun, skip

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Example Sentences

Yost tried to escape to the house patio, but was shot in the head.

From Los Angeles Times

Travelers can choose from a "1-Year Escape from Reality," a "2-Year Mid-Term Selection," a "3-Year Everywhere but Home" and a "4-Year Skip Forward," the release said.

From Salon

To survive, the miners and undocumented migrants go beneath the surface to escape poverty and dig up gold to sell it on the black market.

From BBC

Ultimately, much of the material in the book, including Hughes’ cinematic escape from prison and multiple grueling hunger strikes, was cut so that the Price sisters’ journey of radicalization and regret would take center stage.

From Los Angeles Times

I left the country I came from to escape from this kind of government.

From Los Angeles Times

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