Definition of escape

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Escape (n.) Leakage or loss of currents from the conducting wires, caused by defective insulation..

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Escaper :: Escaper (n.) One who escapes.
Elusion :: Elusion (n.) Act of eluding; adroit escape, as by artifice; a mockery; a cheat; trickery..
Safety :: Safety (n.) Preservation from escape; close custody.
Escape :: Escape (n.) A sally.
Escape :: Escape (n.) Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid..
Falsify :: Falsify (a.) To baffle or escape; as, to falsify a blow..
Custody :: Custody (n.) State of being guarded and watched to prevent escape; restraint of liberty; confinement; imprisonment.
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..
Flight :: Flight (n.) The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape or expected evil; hasty departure..
Escapement :: Escapement (n.) Way of escape; vent.
Valve :: Valve (n.) A small portion of certain anthers, which opens like a trapdoor to allow the pollen to escape, as in the barberry..
Dodge :: Dodge (v. t.) To evade by a sudden shift of place; to escape by starting aside; as, to dodge a blow aimed or a ball thrown..
Apprehension :: Apprehension (n.) The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped..
Wildering :: Wildering (n.) A plant growing in a state of nature; especially, one which has run wild, or escaped from cultivation..
Escape :: Escape (n.) The unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoner's departure from custody..
Narrow :: Narrow (superl.) Having but a little margin; having barely sufficient space, time, or number, etc.; close; near; -- with special reference to some peril or misfortune; as, a narrow shot; a narrow escape; a narrow majority..
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..
Escaped :: Escaped (imp. & p. p.) of Escap.
Oversight :: Oversight (n.) Escape from an overlooked peril.
Scapement :: Scapement (v.) Same as Escapement, 3..
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