Escapable(a.) Avoidable.
Escape(n.) The act of fleeing from danger, of evading harm, or of avoiding notice; deliverance from injury or any evil; flight; as, an escape in battle; a narrow escape; also, the means of escape; as, a fire escape.
Escape(n.) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake; an oversight; also, transgression.
Escape(n.) A sally.
Escape(n.) The unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoner's departure from custody.
Escape(n.) An apophyge.
Escape(n.) Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid.
Escape(n.) Leakage or loss of currents from the conducting wires, caused by defective insulation.
Escape(v.) To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger.
Escape(v.) To avoid the notice of; to pass unobserved by; to evade; as, the fact escaped our attention.
Escape(v. i.) To flee, and become secure from danger; -- often followed by from or out of.
Escape(v. i.) To get clear from danger or evil of any form; to be passed without harm.
Escape(v. i.) To get free from that which confines or holds; -- used of persons or things; as, to escape from prison, from arrest, or from slavery; gas escapes from the pipes; electricity escapes from its conductors.
Escaped(imp. & p. p.) of Escape
Escapement(n.) The act of escaping; escape.
Escapement(n.) Way of escape; vent.
Escapement(n.) The contrivance in a timepiece which connects the train of wheel work with the pendulum or balance, giving to the latter the impulse by which it is kept in vibration; -- so called because it allows a tooth to escape from a pallet at each vibration.
Escaper(n.) One who escapes.
Escaping(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Escape
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