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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.

Effervesce :: Effervesce (v. i.) To be in a state of natural ebullition; to bubble and hiss, as fermenting liquors, or any fluid, when some part escapes in a gaseous form..

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..

Falsify :: Falsify (a.) To baffle or escape; as, to falsify a blow..

Hernia :: Hernia (n.) A protrusion, consisting of an organ or part which has escaped from its natural cavity, and projects through some natural or accidental opening in the walls of the latter; as, hernia of the brain, of the lung, or of the bowels. Hernia of the abdominal viscera in most common. Called also rupture..

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

Escape :: Escape (n.) The unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoner's departure from custody..

Ooze :: Ooze (n.) Fig.: To leak (out) or escape slowly; as, the secret oozed out; his courage oozed out..

Luckily :: Luckily (adv.) In a lucky manner; by good fortune; fortunately; -- used in a good sense; as, they luckily escaped injury..

Flight :: Flight (n.) The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape or expected evil; hasty departure..

Free :: Free (superl.) Not united or combined with anything else; separated; dissevered; unattached; at liberty to escape; as, free carbonic acid gas; free cells..

Pandora :: Pandora (n.) A beautiful woman (all-gifted), whom Jupiter caused Vulcan to make out of clay in order to punish the human race, because Prometheus had stolen the fire from heaven. Jupiter gave Pandora a box containing all human ills, which, when the box was opened, escaped and spread over the earth. Hope alone remained in the box. Another version makes the box contain all the blessings of the gods, which were lost to men when Pandora opened it..

Escape :: Escape (v. i.) To get free from that which confines or holds; -- used of persons or things; as, to escape from prison, from arrest, or from slavery; gas escapes from the pipes; electricity escapes from its conductors..

Gas-burner :: Gas-burner (n.) The jet piece of a gas fixture where the gas is burned as it escapes from one or more minute orifices.

Oversight :: Oversight (n.) Escape from an overlooked peril.

Gastight :: Gastight (a.) So tightly fitted as to preclude the escape of gas; impervious to gas.

Near :: Near (adv.) So as barely to avoid or pass injury or loss; close; narrow; as, a near escape..

Guard :: Guard (n.) To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like..

Providential :: Providential (a.) Effected by, or referable to, divine direction or superintendence; as, the providential contrivance of thing; a providential escape..

Elusive :: Elusive (a.) Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious.

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