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, scape — avolation^†, elopement, flight — evasion etc. (avoidance) 623 — retreat — narrow escape, hairbreadth escape — close call — come off, impunity.
[Means of escape] loophole etc. (opening) 260 — path etc. 627 — refuse etc. 666 — vent, vent peg — safety valve — drawbridge, fire escape.
reprieve etc. (deliverance) 672 — liberation etc. 750.
refugee etc. (fugitive) 623.

verb

escape, scape — make one's escape, effect one's escape, make good one's escape — break jail — get off, get clear off, get well out of — echapper belle [Fr.], save one's bacon, save one's skin — weather the storm etc. (safe) 664 — escape scot-free.
elude &c., make off etc. (avoid) 623 — march off etc. (go away) 293 — give one the slip — slip through the hands, slip through the fingers — slip the collar, wriggle out of prison, break out, break loose, break loose from prison — break away, slip away, get away — find 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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