Definition of escape

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Escape (n.) Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid..

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Scape :: Scape (n.) Means of escape; evasion.
Effect :: Effect (n.) Goods; movables; personal estate; -- sometimes used to embrace real as well as personal property; as, the people escaped from the town with their effects..
Narrowly :: Narrowly (adv.) With a little margin or space; by a small distance; hence, closely; hardly; barely; only just; -- often with reference to an avoided danger or misfortune; as, he narrowly escaped..
Beleaguer :: Beleaguer (v. t.) To surround with an army so as to preclude escape; to besiege; to blockade.
Transpire :: Transpire (v. i.) To escape from secrecy; to become public; as, the proceedings of the council soon transpired..
Unscapable :: Unscapable (a.) Not be escaped; inevitable.
Escaper :: Escaper (n.) One who escapes.
Apprehension :: Apprehension (n.) The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped..
Vent :: Vent (v. t.) To suffer to escape from confinement; to let out; to utter; to pour forth; as, to vent passion or complaint..
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..
Thrombus :: Thrombus (n.) A tumor produced by the escape of blood into the subcutaneous cellular tissue.
Elusion :: Elusion (n.) Act of eluding; adroit escape, as by artifice; a mockery; a cheat; trickery..
Breasting :: Breasting (n.) The curved channel in which a breast wheel turns. It is closely adapted to the curve of the wheel through about a quarter of its circumference, and prevents the escape of the water until it has spent its force upon the wheel. See Breast wheel..
Valve :: Valve (n.) A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, as in the barberry..
Falsify :: Falsify (a.) To baffle or escape; as, to falsify a blow..
Safe-keeping :: Safe-keeping (n.) The act of keeping or preserving in safety from injury or from escape; care; custody.
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.
Creephole :: Creephole (n.) A hole or retreat into which an animal may creep, to escape notice or danger..
Hermetical :: Hermetical (a.) Made perfectly close or air-tight by fusion, so that no gas or spirit can enter or escape; as, an hermetic seal. See Note under Hermetically..
Evade :: Evade (v. t.) To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding..
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