Meaning

2 senses

  1. A fuel-free safe spot, consisting of burning grass as a method of defense against a forest fire.

  2. (idiomatic)An unconventional or counterintuitive solution to a difficult problem.

Examples

4 sentences

  1. He failed to escape from the fire and burned to death.

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  2. I escaped from the fire with nothing but the clothes on my back.

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  3. Tom managed to escape from the fire.

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  4. He had a narrow escape at that fire.

    deEr entkam diesem Feuer um Haaresbreite. — faehrmann

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Forms

plural: escape fires
Singularescape fire
Pluralescape fires

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
escalatorA2escapadeescapeB1escapeeescapismeschatologyeschew

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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