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escape from

v. get rid of; "I couldn't shake the car that was following me" [syn: shake, shake off, throw off]

Usage examples of "escape from".

But they still had to escape from Undermountain, and it seemed they were farther from finding a way out than ever.

Did he, on the other hand, escape from the French prison where Grosley thought he saw him, during the French Revolution?

Aufors would have accepted a sentence of death in order to let Genevieve escape from this man, and this bargain was far less than that.

She told the people there that when she'd been in Mahahm, that she'd had to escape from the Shah, and she sang a song about it.

There would be no escape from this, but perhaps he could hold them off until the guard arrived.

It had been a wonderful time, an escape from the pressures of his office and her duties, and they had both told each other that they would do it again, soon.