Crossword-Solution: ESCAPE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Escape | v. | To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger. |
| Escape | v. | To avoid the notice of; to pass unobserved by; to evade; as, the fact escaped our attention. |
| Escape | v. i. | To flee, and become secure from danger; -- often followed by from or out of. |
| Escape | v. i. | To get clear from danger or evil of any form; to be passed without harm. |
| 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. |
| Escape | n. | The act of fleeing from danger, of evading harm, or of avoiding notice; deliverance from injury or any evil; flight; as, an escape in battle; a narrow escape; also, the means of escape; as, a fire escape. |
| Escape | n. | That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake; an oversight; also, transgression. |
| Escape | n. | A sally. |
| Escape | n. | The unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoner's departure from custody. |
| Escape | n. | An apophyge. |
| Escape | n. | Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid. |
| Escape | n. | Leakage or loss of currents from the conducting wires, caused by defective insulation. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ESCAPE | anagram | PEACES |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with ESCAPE (5)
Was his enemy to escape him after all? But what was that? The red in his eye had caught sight of Peter’s medicine standing on a ledge within easy reach.
When the Crane had extracted the bone and demanded the promised payment, the Wolf, grinning and grinding his teeth, exclaimed: “Why, you have surely already had a sufficient recompense, in having been permitted to draw out your head in safety from the mouth and jaws of a wolf.” In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.
White men have been known to encourage slaves to escape, and then, to get the reward, catch them and return them to their masters.
What woman in Bathsheba’s position, not naturally timid, and within call of her retainers, would have bought escape from a dashing soldier at so dear a price? “All in good time; it will soon be done, I perceive,” said her cool friend.
But one day she heard the hounds approaching and hoped to escape them by the aid of her many Friends.
Quotes with ESCAPE (3)
I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.
At least one indication of unbelief is the tendency to measure life's challenges against our own adequacy instead of God's promises. To enter our Sabbath rest, we must put an end to self-reliance - trusting in our own abilities to overcome difficulties, rise above challenges, escape tragedies, or achieve personal greatness.
For this will cure him that is sick, and rouse him that is in dumps; one that has loved, it will remember of it; one that has not, it will instruct. For there was never any yet that wholly could escape love, and never shall there be any, never so long as beauty shall be, never so long as eyes can see. But help me that God to write the passions of others; and while I write, keep me in my own right wits.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 248 times in crossword archives (1944–2024).