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escape

Roget category 671

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
5.2. Prospective volition
›› 5.2.2. Subservience to ends

#671. Escape

noun

escape, scapeavolation, elopement, flightevasion etc. (avoidance) 623retreatnarrow escape, hairbreadth escape close callcome off, impunity.
[Means of escape] loophole etc. (opening) 260path etc. 627refuse etc. 666vent, vent pegsafety valvedrawbridge, fire escape.
reprieve etc. (deliverance) 672liberation etc. 750.
refugee etc. (fugitive) 623.

verb

escape, scapemake one's escape, effect one's escape, make good one's escapebreak jailget off, get clear off, get well out ofechapper belle [Fr.], save one's bacon, save one's skinweather the storm etc. (safe) 664escape scot-free.
elude &c., make off etc. (avoid) 623march off etc. (go away) 293give one the slipslip through the hands, slip through the fingersslip the collar, wriggle out of prison, break out, break loose, break loose from prisonbreak away, slip away, get awayfind vent, find a hole to creep out of.
disappear, vanish.

adjective

escaping, escaped etc. v.. stolen away, fled.

phrase

the bird has flown the coop.

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