escape

run away from confinement

• “The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison”

fail to experience

• “Fortunately, I missed the hurricane”

escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action

• “She gets away with murder!”
• “I couldn”

be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by

• “What you are seeing in him eludes me”

issue or leak, as from a small opening

• “Gas escaped into the bedroom”

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”

flee; take to one''s heels; cut and run

• “If you see this man, run!”
• “The burglars escaped before the police showed up”

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”

an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy

• “romantic novels were her escape from the stress of daily life”
• “his alcohol problem was a form of escapism”

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”

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

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”

an avoidance of danger or difficulty

• “that was a narrow escape”

a means or way of escaping

• “hard work was his escape from worry”
• “they installed a second hatch as an escape”
• “their escape route”

a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild