escape

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To get free from a place where you were trapped or held.

   The prisoner escaped from the high-security jail during the night.

2. 2
   noun

   The act of getting free from a place or a difficult situation.

   The thieves planned their escape carefully.

3. 3
   verb

   To get away from your usual life for rest or pleasure.

   We escaped to a quiet beach house for the weekend.

4. 4
   verb

   To leak out slowly through a small opening, as gas or liquid.

   Gas was escaping from the cracked pipe.

5. 5
   noun

   A way of forgetting unpleasant reality through entertainment or fantasy.

   Romantic novels are her escape from the stress of daily life.

Common collocations

• lucky escape Adjective + noun
• make an escape Verb + noun
• plan an escape Verb + noun
• daring escape Adjective + noun
• attempt an escape Verb + noun
• escape prison Verb + noun
• miraculous escape Adjective + noun
• stage an escape Verb + noun
• escape hatch Noun + noun

From Middle English escapen, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French escaper ( = Old French eschaper, modern French échapper), from Vulgar Latin *excappāre (“to escape a garment, get out of one's clothing”, literally “to free oneself from one's cape”), from Latin ex- (“out”) + Late Latin cappa (“cape, cloak”). Cognate with escapade. Also doublet of scape.

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