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• “The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison“

Synonyms

• get away run away from confinement; escape potentially unpleasant consequences; remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion
• break loose be unleashed; run away from confinement

• “Fortunately, I missed the hurricane“

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• miss a young female; a failure to hit (or meet or find etc) ; a form of address for an unmarried woman ; fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind; feel or suffer from the lack of; fail to attend an event or activity; leave undone or leave out; fail to reach or get to; be without; fail to reach; be absent; fail to experience

• “get away with a forbidden action“
• “She gets away with murder!“
• “I couldn’t get out from under these responsibilities“

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• get off leave a vehicle, aircraft, etc. ; be relieved of one’s duties temporarily ; transfer; cause to be acquitted; escape potentially unpleasant consequences; enjoy in a sexual way; alight from (a horse) ; get out of quickly; send via the postal service; get high, stoned, or drugged; deliver verbally
• get away run away from confinement; escape potentially unpleasant consequences; remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion
• get by succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means available; pass or move in front of; escape potentially unpleasant consequences
• get out move out of or depart from; take out of a container or enclosed space; move out or away; express with difficulty; bring, take, or pull out of a container or from under a cover; be released or become known; escape potentially unpleasant consequences

• “escape understanding by“
• “What you are seeing in him eludes me“

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• elude escape, either physically or mentally; be incomprehensible to; avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)

• “We escaped to our summer house for a few days“
• “The president of the company never manages to get away during the summer“

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• get away run away from confinement; escape potentially unpleasant consequences; remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion

• “take to one’s heels“
• “cut and run“
• “If you see this man, run!“
• “The burglars escaped before the police showed up“

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• scat flee; singing jazz
• run a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely; the act of testing something; a race run on foot; an unbroken series of events; (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team; a regular trip; the act of running; the continuous period of time during which something (a machine or a factory) operates or continues in operation; unrestricted freedom to use; the production achieved during a continuous period of operation (of a machine or factory etc.); a small stream ; a race between candidates for elective office; a row of unravelled stitches; the pouring forth of a fluid ; an unbroken chronological sequence; a short trip; move fast by using one’s feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time; flee; stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; direct or control; have a particular form; move along, of liquids; perform as expected when applied; change or be different within limits; run, stand, or compete for an office or a position; cause to emit recorded audio or video; move about freely and without restraint, or act as if running around in an uncontrolled way; have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be operating, running or functioning; change from one state to another; cause to perform; be affected by; continue to exist; occur persistently; carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine; include as the content; carry out; pass over, across, or through; cause something to pass or lead somewhere; make without a miss ; deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor ; cause an animal to move fast; be diffused; sail before the wind ; cover by running; extend or continue for a certain period of time; set animals loose to graze ; keep company; run with the ball; travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means; travel a route regularly; pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals); compete in a race; progress by being changed; reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating; come unraveled or undone as if by snagging; become undone
• scarper flee
• turn tail flee
• lam a rapid escape (as by criminals); flee; give a thrashing to
• run away flee; escape from the control of
• hightail it flee
• bunk avoid paying; provide with a bunk; flee; a long trough for feeding cattle ; a bed on a ship or train; a rough bed (as at a campsite) ; unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) ; a message that seems to convey no meaning ; beds built one above the other
• head for the hills flee
• take to the woods flee
• fly the coop flee
• break away move away or escape suddenly; break off (a piece from a whole); interrupt a continued activity; withdraw from an organization or communion; flee

• “Gas escaped into the bedroom“

• “he made his escape from the mental hospital“
• “the canary escaped from its cage“
• “his flight was an indication of his guilt“

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• flight shoot a bird in flight ; fly in a flock; decorate with feathers; a formation of aircraft in flight ; an instance of traveling by air; a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next ; the act of escaping physically; an air force unit smaller than a squadron ; passing above and beyond ordinary bounds; the path followed by an object moving through space ; a flock of flying birds ; a scheduled trip by plane between designated airports

• “romantic novels were her escape from the stress of daily life“
• “his alcohol problem was a form of escapism“

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• escapism an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy

• “his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible“
• “that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive“

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• evasion a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth ; the deliberate act of failing to pay money; nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do; the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver
• dodging nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do; a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery ; deliberately avoiding

• “that was a narrow escape“

• “hard work was his escape from worry“
• “they installed a second hatch as an escape“
• “their escape route“

• “they tried to stop the escape of gas from the damaged pipe“
• “he had to clean up the leak“

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• leak tell anonymously; be leaked; enter or escape as through a hole or crack or fissure; have an opening that allows light or substances to enter or go out; an accidental hole that allows something (fluid or light etc.) to enter or escape; soft watery rot in fruits and vegetables caused by fungi ; a euphemism for urination; the discharge of a fluid from some container; unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information
• leakage the discharge of a fluid from some container
• outflow the discharge of a fluid from some container; the process of flowing out ; a natural flow of ground water

• “it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level“

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• safety valve a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler)
• relief valve a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler)
• escape valve a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler)
• escape cock a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler)