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adjective
- 1. having broken free from confinement or control: "escaped convicts"
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1. : to get free of : break away from. escape the jungle. escape the solar system. 2. : to get or stay out of the way of : avoid.
to get free from something such as a prison or cage, or from someone who will not allow you to leave: Two prisoners have escaped. escape from A lion has escaped from its cage. She was kidnapped but escaped her captors. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. to forget something. forget I can't believe I've forgotten her birthday!
ESCAPED | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary. Meaning of escaped in English. escaped. adjective [ before noun ] uk / ɪˈskeɪpt / us / ɪˈskeɪpt / Add to word list. having got free: an escaped prisoner. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Freedom to act. (as) free as a bird idiom. agency. at leisure idiom. at will idiom. autonomist.
to get free from something such as a prison or cage, or from someone who will not allow you to leave: Two prisoners have escaped. escape from A lion has escaped from its cage. She was kidnapped but escaped her captors. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. to forget something. forget I can't believe I've forgotten her birthday!
To be outside the memory or understanding of; fail to be remembered or understood by: Her name escapes me. The book's significance escaped him. 4. To issue involuntarily from: A sigh escaped my lips. n. 1. The act or an instance of escaping. 2. A means of escaping. 3.
to slip away from or elude (pursuers, captors, etc.): He escaped the police. Synonyms: avoid, flee, dodge. to succeed in avoiding (any threatened or possible danger or evil): She escaped capture. to elude (one's memory, notice, search, etc.). to fail to be noticed or recollected by (a person): Her reply escapes me.
[intransitive, transitive] to get away from a place where you have been kept as a prisoner or not allowed to leave. Two prisoners have escaped. They were caught trying to escape. escape from somebody/something He escaped from prison this morning. She attempted to escape from the pirates holding her hostage.
