Definition of escape

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Escape (v.) To avoid the notice of; to pass unobserved by; to evade; as, the fact escaped our attention..

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Leak :: Leak (n.) To enter or escape, as a fluid, through a hole, crevice, etc. ; to pass gradually into, or out of, something; -- usually with in or out..
Surrender :: Surrender (v. i.) To give up one's self into the power of another; to yield; as, the enemy, seeing no way of escape, surrendered at the first summons..
Wildering :: Wildering (n.) A plant growing in a state of nature; especially, one which has run wild, or escaped from cultivation..
Astert :: Astert (v. t.) To start up; to befall; to escape; to shun.
Apprehension :: Apprehension (n.) The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped..
Guard :: Guard (n.) To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like..
Elude :: Elude (v. t.) To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; as, to elude an officer; to elude detection, inquiry, search, comprehension; to elude the force of an argument or a blow..
Ooze :: Ooze (n.) Fig.: To leak (out) or escape slowly; as, the secret oozed out; his courage oozed out..
Condenser :: Condenser (n.) An instrument for condensing air or other elastic fluids, consisting of a cylinder having a movable piston to force the air into a receiver, and a valve to prevent its escape..
Blencher :: Blencher (n.) One who, or that which, scares another; specifically, a person stationed to prevent the escape of the deer, at a hunt. See Blancher..
Fucoid :: Fucoid (a.) Properly, belonging to an order of alga: (Fucoideae) which are blackish in color, and produce oospores which are not fertilized until they have escaped from the conceptacle. The common rockweeds and the gulfweed (Sargassum) are fucoid in character..
Inevitably :: Inevitably (adv.) Without possibility of escape or evasion; unavoidably; certainly.
Evade :: Evade (v. t.) To escape; to slip away; -- sometimes with from.
Sly :: Sly (v. t.) Dexterous in performing an action, so as to escape notice; nimble; skillful; cautious; shrewd; knowing; -- in a good sense..
Effusion :: Effusion (n.) The escape of a fluid out of its natural vessel, either by rupture of the vessel, or by exudation through its walls. It may pass into the substance of an organ, or issue upon a free surface..
Riddance :: Riddance (n.) The state of being rid or free; freedom; escape.
Smoke :: Smoke (n.) The visible exhalation, vapor, or substance that escapes, or expelled, from a burning body, especially from burning vegetable matter, as wood, coal, peat, or the like..
Pour :: Pour (v. t.) To send forth as in a stream or a flood; to emit; to let escape freely or wholly.
Vent :: Vent (v. t.) To suffer to escape from confinement; to let out; to utter; to pour forth; as, to vent passion or complaint..
Subterrane :: Subterfuge (n.) That to which one resorts for escape or concealment; an artifice employed to escape censure or the force of an argument, or to justify opinions or conduct; a shift; an evasion..
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