Definition of escape

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Escape (n.) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake; an oversight; also, transgression..

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Recaption :: Recaption (n.) The act of retaking, as of one who has escaped after arrest; reprisal; the retaking of one's own goods, chattels, wife, or children, without force or violence, from one who has taken them and who wrongfully detains them..
Chance :: Chance (n.) A possibility; a likelihood; an opportunity; -- with reference to a doubtful result; as, a chance to escape; a chance for life; the chances are all against him..
Flight :: Flight (n.) The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape or expected evil; hasty departure..
Fly :: Fly (v. i.) To run from danger; to attempt to escape; to flee; as, an enemy or a coward flies. See Note under Flee..
Riddance :: Riddance (n.) The state of being rid or free; freedom; escape.
Preposition :: Preposition (n.) A word employed to connect a noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word; a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word; -- so called because usually placed before the word with which it is phrased; as, a bridge of iron; he comes from town; it is good for food; he escaped by running..
Save :: Save (a.) To hold possession or use of; to escape loss of.
Air Cock :: Air cock () A faucet to allow escape of air.
Escape :: Escape (n.) Leakage or loss of currents from the conducting wires, caused by defective insulation..
Free :: Free (superl.) Not united or combined with anything else; separated; dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; as, free carbonic acid gas; free cells..
Scapegallows :: Scapegallows (n.) One who has narrowly escaped the gallows for his crimes.
Gastight :: Gastight (a.) So tightly fitted as to preclude the escape of gas; impervious to gas.
Scape-wheel :: Scape-wheel (n.) The wheel in an escapement (as of a clock or a watch) into the teeth of which the pallets play.
Cold :: Cold (n.) The sensation produced by the escape of heat; chilliness or chillness.
Ventilate :: Ventilate (v. t.) To provide with a vent, or escape, for air, gas, etc.; as, to ventilate a mold, or a water-wheel bucket..
Escaper :: Escaper (n.) One who escapes.
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..
Outloose :: Outloose (n.) A loosing from; an escape; an outlet; an evasion.
Double :: Double (n.) A turn or circuit in running to escape pursues; hence, a trick; a shift; an artifice..
Safety :: Safety (n.) Preservation from escape; close custody.
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