escape




escape - noun

  • the act of escaping physically
  • an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy
  • nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do
  • an avoidance of danger or difficulty
  • a means or way of escaping
  • a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild
  • the discharge of a fluid from some container
  • a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level

    • escape - verb

    • run away from confinement
    • fail to experience
    • escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action
    • be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by
    • remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion
    • flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
    • issue or leak, as from a small opening

    escape - thesaurus

    bunk   dodging   elude   escapism   evasion   flight   lam   leak   leakage   miss   outflow   run   scarper   scat  


    View spelling list a-e words - set 2 and learn about the word escape in the Spellzone English spelling course, Unit 7. Long vowels e.g ee, ea or y? oa, o-e, or ow? u-e, ue, or ew?.

    Scrabble score for escape

    e is 1 s is 1 c is 3 a is 1 p is 3 e is 1
    Scrabble score = 10

    generated at 12:57:58 on 13-08-24

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