Definition of escape

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

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Safe-keeping :: Safe-keeping (n.) The act of keeping or preserving in safety from injury or from escape; care; custody.
Escape :: Escape (v. i.) To get clear from danger or evil of any form; to be passed without harm.
Remontoir :: Remontoir (n.) See under Escapement.
Preposition :: Preposition (n.) A word employed to connect a noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word; a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word; -- so called because usually placed before the word with which it is phrased; as, a bridge of iron; he comes from town; it is good for food; he escaped by running..
So :: So (adv.) In such manner; to such degree; -- used correlatively with as or that following; as, he was so fortunate as to escape..
Evaporate :: Evaporate (v. t.) To escape or pass off without effect; to be dissipated; to be wasted, as, the spirit of writer often evaporates in the process of translation..
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..
Barely :: Barely (adv.) But just; without any excess; with nothing to spare ( of quantity, time, etc.); hence, scarcely; hardly; as, there was barely enough for all; he barely escaped..
Escaper :: Escaper (n.) One who escapes.
Vent :: Vent (v. t.) To suffer to escape from confinement; to let out; to utter; to pour forth; as, to vent passion or complaint..
Elusive :: Elusive (a.) Tending to elude; using arts or deception to escape; adroitly escaping or evading; eluding the grasp; fallacious.
Recaption :: Recaption (n.) The act of retaking, as of one who has escaped after arrest; reprisal; the retaking of one's own goods, chattels, wife, or children, without force or violence, from one who has taken them and who wrongfully detains them..
Escape :: Escape (n.) Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid..
Sleight :: Sleight (n.) An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation.
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..
Evaporate :: Evaporate (v. t.) To pass off in vapor, as a fluid; to escape and be dissipated, either in visible vapor, or in practice too minute to be visible..
Rejuvenescence :: Rejuvenescence (n.) A method of cell formation in which the entire protoplasm of an old cell escapes by rupture of the cell wall, and then develops a new cell wall. It is seen sometimes in the formation of zoospores, etc..
#NAME? :: -en () A suffix corresponding to AS. -en and -on, formerly used to form the plural of verbs, as in housen, escapen..
Vent :: Vent (n.) A small aperture; a hole or passage for air or any fluid to escape; as, the vent of a cask; the vent of a mold; a volcanic vent..
Surquedous :: Surprising (a.) Exciting surprise; extraordinary; of a nature to excite wonder and astonishment; as, surprising bravery; a surprising escape from danger..
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