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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, "an act of escaping, action of escaping," also "a possibility of escape," from escape (v.) or from Old French eschap ; earlier eschap (c.1300). Mental/emotional sense is from 1853. From 1810 as "a means of escape." The contractual escape clause ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of escaping physically; "he made his escape from the mental hospital"; "the canary escaped from its cage"; "his flight was an indication of his guilt" [syn: flight ] an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy; ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Escape is a 1930 British crime film directed by Basil Dean and starring Gerald du Maurier , Edna Best and Gordon Harker . It was based on a 1926 play of the same title by John Galsworthy , which was adapted again as a film in 1948 .
Usage examples of escape.
Clearly you have aided and abetted a traitor to escape justice, and you will be remanded.
I am charged with aiding and abetting his escape it seems to me that I have a right to know who he is.
They may opine that I have been an abettor of treason, that I have attempted to circumvent the ends of justice, and that I may have impersonated you in order to render possible your escape.
I strove again, then, to escape, pulling against the bonds, trying to abraid them against the back of the blade.
Privately I ascribed her immunity to the fact that, being a woman, she escaped most of the cuts and abrasions to which we hard-working men were subject in the course of working the Snark around the world.
Up till now, to his own surprise, all three of his fellow absconders had acted as if he were still one of them, in equal peril from outsiders-or settlers, like the Meldrums-and therefore bent, as they were, on escape.
I wrapped myself and Achates warmly against the cool gray of the day, and escaped the house.
They all had guns drawn and with all the commotion, somehow Adeem had escaped.
What can we conceive to escape the self-knowledge of a principle which admittedly knows the place it holds and the work it has to do?
The train steamed into the advancing Boer army, was fired upon, tried to escape, found the rails blocked behind it, and upset.
He noted distances from friendly forts, fuel supplies, possible landing areas and traced the known route of the escaping Afghanis to the last known point nearly half-way along the Khyber.
Morris discarded the clip and reloaded as he and his team ran on to the aft escape trunk.
The trip from the aft hull had taken less than a minute, but the aft escape trunk was still forty feet ahead.
A few more seconds and he was running past the aft escape trunk, the body of the Chinese guard collapsing to the inside of the trunk below.
McDermitt was the first SEAL down the hatch of the aft escape trunk after Morris shot the Chinese guard who had been lying in ambush inside.