escape
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1.1
- noun
- /ɪˈskeɪp/
:
evitación
- There is no escape for you and your kind.
- offers no escape
- seek escape
- escape behavior
Is it the intention of radical escape from oneself?
- Is it the intention of radical escape from oneself?
- You know when you crave an escape from your life.
- There's no signpost, no, you know, no escape after you reach this point or anything like that.
- It's being used as escape and avoidance of the actual topic.
- It doesn't promise an out or an escape.
- So another sign is that you constantly fantasize about escape.
- No happy endings, no apologies, no excuses, no redemption, no escape.
- There was just no escape from the people who were caught in that madness.
- As ever, my reasons was an escape and my reasons was to not be me.
- That is a vice of escape.
- Your escape and evasion, you're thrown out in the middle of the mowers.
Examples
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For many, reading is an escape from the pressures of daily life.
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There was just no escape from the people who were caught in that madness.
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Again, it provides the same kind of escape or cover.
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Now that there was no chance of escape, he wanted to run and run and run.
Fiction book (1990) -
Once they see there is no escape, they learn to love it, or at least stop struggling.
Fiction book (1996) -
When a desire to escape becomes formal, it's dangerous.
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For me, there's no escape from the mess I made.
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You know when you crave an escape from your life.
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Fox argued, to the contrary, that there could be no escape from compromise.
Academic text (1990) -
That's our escape route.
Synonyms
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4.9
A quick secret escape from danger or capture
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3.7
Keeping away from something or stopping it from happening
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6.2
Not doing something you must do, for example not paying taxes, by using tricks
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5.8
Choosing to avoid someone or to stop something from happening
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4.9
A quick move to avoid danger
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3.1
A situation in which someone just avoids danger or a bad result
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5.0
A quick movement to avoid someone or something, for example a ball
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8.1
Avoiding being caught by using clever plans or quick moves
A choice to avoid something on purpose
Compounds
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2.7
A staircase or metal ladder on the outside of a building used to get out during a fire
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4.1
A small door in a vehicle or building that lets people get out quickly in an emergency
- Specialized
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7.7
The speed needed to leave a planet's or star's gravity without more push
- Formal
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5.5
A part of a contract that lets one or both people cancel it in certain situations
- Jargon
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6.5
The point when a company grows enough to support itself without extra funding
A performer who frees themselves from locks, chains, or traps in front of an audience
- Neologism
A person who designs and runs live puzzle rooms where players solve clues to find the exit
- Specialized
A device that opens by itself to let out extra pressure and prevent explosions
- Specialized
A wheel with teeth in a mechanical clock or watch that controls how the gears move
How Affected
Surface Forms
Etymology
The noun escape in the sense of avoiding something unpleasant also comes from ex- 'out' and cappa 'cloak', meaning a way of getting out. So a narrow escape from danger is a close 'getting out' from harm.