Definition of escape

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Escape (v. i.) To flee, and become secure from danger; -- often followed by from or out of..

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Evaporate :: Evaporate (v. t.) To escape or pass off without effect; to be dissipated; to be wasted, as, the spirit of writer often evaporates in the process of translation..
Scape :: Scape (n.) An escape.
Bolt :: Bolt (v. i.) A sudden flight, as to escape creditors..
So :: So (adv.) In such manner; to such degree; -- used correlatively with as or that following; as, he was so fortunate as to escape..
Unscapable :: Unscapable (a.) Not be escaped; inevitable.
Remontoir :: Remontoir (n.) See under Escapement.
Vent :: Vent (n.) Emission; escape; passage to notice or expression; publication; utterance.
Escapement :: Escapement (n.) The contrivance in a timepiece which connects the train of wheel work with the pendulum or balance, giving to the latter the impulse by which it is kept in vibration; -- so called because it allows a tooth to escape from a pallet at each vibration..
Creephole :: Creephole (n.) A hole or retreat into which an animal may creep, to escape notice or danger..
Theftbote :: Theftbote (n.) The receiving of a man's goods again from a thief, or a compensation for them, by way of composition, with the intent that the thief shall escape punishment..
Checkmate :: Checkmate (v. t.) To check (an adversary's king) in such a manner that escape in impossible; to defeat (an adversary) by putting his king in check from which there is no escape.
Escape :: Escape (v. i.) To get clear from danger or evil of any form; to be passed without harm.
Contraband :: Contraband (n.) A negro slave, during the Civil War, escaped to, or was brought within, the Union lines. Such slave was considered contraband of war..
Air Cock :: Air cock () A faucet to allow escape of air.
Evade :: Evade (v. t.) To escape; to slip away; -- sometimes with from.
Flight :: Flight (n.) The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape or expected evil; hasty departure..
Loophole :: Loophole (n.) A hole or aperture that gives a passage, or the means of escape or evasion..
Leak :: Leak (v.) The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture; as, the leak gained on the ship's pumps..
Scape :: Scape (n.) Means of escape; evasion.
Avolate :: Avolate (v. i.) To fly away; to escape; to exhale.
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