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escaping

 
Verb escape has 7 senses
  1. escape, get away, break loose - run away from confinement; "The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison"
    --1 is one way to flee, fly, take flight
    Derived forms: noun escape7, noun escape1, noun escapee1
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s PP
  2. miss, escape - fail to experience; "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane"
    --2 is one way to avoid
    Derived forms: noun escape6, noun escape5
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
  3. get off, get away, get by, get out, escape - escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action; "She gets away with murder!"; "I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities"
    --3 is one way to avoid
    Derived form: noun escape5
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s PP
  4. elude, escape - be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by; "What you are seeing in him eludes me"
    --4 is one way to perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound
    Sample sentence:
    The performance is likely to escape Sue
  5. escape - issue or leak, as from a small opening; "Gas escaped into the bedroom"
    --5 is one way to
    issue, emerge, come out, come forth, go forth, egress
    Derived form: noun escape3
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Something is ----ing PP
  6. escape, get away - remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion; "We escaped to our summer house for a few days"; "The president of the company never manages to get away during the summer"
    --6 is one way to escape, get away, break loose
    Derived forms: noun escapist1, noun escape5
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s PP
  7. run, scarper, turn tail, lam, run away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills, take to the woods, escape, fly the coop, break away - flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up"
    --7 is one way to leave, go forth, go away
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Somebody ----s
    Somebody ----s PP
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