Crossword clues for escaped
escaped
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Escape \Es*cape"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Escaped; p. pr. & vb. n. Escaping.] [OE. escapen, eschapen, OF. escaper, eschaper, F. echapper, fr. LL. ex cappa out of one's cape or cloak; hence, to slip out of one's cape and escape. See 3d Cape, and cf. Scape, v.]
To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger. ``Sailors that escaped the wreck.''
--Shak.-
To avoid the notice of; to pass unobserved by; to evade; as, the fact escaped our attention.
They escaped the search of the enemy.
--Ludlow.
Wiktionary
That or who has escaped, especially from prison or another place of confinement. v
(en-past of: escape)
WordNet
adj. having escaped, especially from confinement; "a convict still at large"; "searching for two escaped prisoners"; "dogs loose on the streets"; "criminals on the loose in the neighborhood" [syn: at large(p), at liberty(p), loose, on the loose(p)]
Usage examples of "escaped".
How the Hrrubans could have escaped the notice of such Vigorous, intensive searching defeated Ken.
So the settlers had devised a method of herding the snakes, making certain by a variety of means that few escaped to wreak havoc among the herds and flocks.
After all, the Catteni might stumble on her if they thought their victim had escaped the crash.
His reaction time was so much faster than hers that he was halfway across the clearing within seconds after the order escaped her lips.
The woman twisted back the lock of lank bleached hair that had escaped its pins.
Apparently the fact that the lugger with its cold sleep would-be invasion force had escaped didn't concern him half as much as he was pleased that the overgunned escort had been destroyed.
None of the troops in five of the pods escaped, but the foremost one managed to unload some into the corridor beyond, where they joined the remnants from the first three pods.
The Jig's verbal report was surprisingly orderly and concise for someone who had narrowly escaped death and still had ripening bruises on his face.
She and Aygar and her crewmembers had just escaped the pitched battle that erupted when the Pollys tried gas on tunnel rats who had gas masks and weapons.
So far, the Seti commanders had assumed that the losses were, in fact, due to passive defense systems that had escaped inactivation.
The humans most responsible had escaped the planet in a fast yacht, and although a Fleet vessel had kept it in sight, it could not stop it.
You escaped one death-trap after another, you got vital information, you saved the world.
Iswy had already escaped or was hiding where he was unlikely to be found.
Somehow it had escaped her that grief was a frequent visitor in the universe, that her inability to aid Jennan was scarcely unique.
She smiled inside her helmet, and a curl of hair escaped down to dangle above her left eyebrow, making her look a lot more human.