Meaning

11 senses

  1. (intransitive)To get free; to free oneself.

    The prisoners escaped by jumping over a wall.

    The factory was evacuated after toxic gases escaped from a pipe.

    entgehen

    спаса́тьсяspasátʹsja, спасти́сьspastísʹ, соверша́ть побе́гsoveršátʹ pobég

    рятува́тисяrjatuvátysja, врятува́тисяvrjatuvátysja, спаса́тисяspasátysja

  2. (transitive)To break out of confinement.

    The prisoners escaped their cell.

    run away from confinement

  3. (transitive)To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.

    He only got a fine and so escaped going to jail.

    The children climbed out of the window to escape the fire.

    entgehen, ausweichen

    избега́тьizbegátʹ, избежа́тьizbežátʹ, отде́лыватьсяotdélyvatʹsja

    уника́тиunykáty, уни́кнутиunýknuty, омина́тиomynáty

    escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action

  4. (intransitive)To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.

    Luckily, I escaped with only a fine.

    davonkommen

    ускольза́тьuskolʹzátʹ, ускользну́тьuskolʹznútʹ

  5. (intransitive)To avoid responsibilities and stresses for a time.

    Work was stressful, and I needed to escape.

  6. (transitive)To be forgotten by.

    I used to know the name of the capital of France, but it escapes me now.

  7. (transitive)To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.

    The name of the hotel escapes me at present.

    The detective examined the crime scene, but one clue escaped his notice.

  8. (transitive)To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted literally, instead of with any special meaning it would usually have in the same context, often by prefixing with another character.

    When using the "bash" shell, you can escape the ampersand character with a backslash.

    Brion escaped the double quote character on Windows by adding a second double quote within the literal.

  9. To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.

    выйтиvyjti, завершитьzaveršitʹ

    ви́йтиvýjty, ви́хідvýxid

  10. (intransitive)To grow wild, instead of in a cultivated area.

    You have to be careful planting mint, or it will escape and take over your yard.

  11. (transitive)To express, especially involuntarily.

    I tried to look disappointed, but a smile escaped me.

Examples

1528 sentences

  1. Tom helped Mary escape from prison.

    Том допоміг Мері втекти з в'язниці. — deniko

    ruТом помог Мэри сбежать из тюрьмы. — odexed

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  2. We won't be able to escape.

    Ми не зможемо втікти. — deniko

    ruМы не сможем убежать. — odexed

    deWir werden nicht entkommen können. — brauchinet

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  3. Tom didn't even try to escape.

    Том навіть не намагався втікти. — deniko

    ruТом даже не пытался сбежать. — Wezel

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  4. Tom can probably help us escape.

    Том, мабуть, може допомогти нам врятуватися. — deniko

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  5. Once again, I was able to escape death.

    Я знову зміг уникнути смерті. — miketheknight

    deWieder konnte ich dem Tod entgehen. — Merle

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 3
to get free; to free oneself:
to avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from:
to halt a program by pressing a combination of keys:
Русский
By meaning 5
to prefix a special key in order to make it an ordinary key:
to get free; to free oneself:
to avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from:
to avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment:
to halt a program by pressing a combination of keys:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
to get free; to free oneself:
to avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from:
to avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment:

Origin

From Middle English escapen, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French escaper ( = Old Fre

From Middle English escapen, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French escaper ( = Old French eschaper, modern French échapper), from Vulgar Latin *excappāre (“to escape a garment, get out of one's clothing”, literally “to free oneself from one's cape”), from Latin ex- (“out”) + Late Latin cappa (“cape, cloak”). Cognate with escapade. Also doublet of scape.

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Forms

escapes, escaping, escaped, escaped
Base formescape · to escape
3rd person singularescapes
Present participleescaping
Past simpleescaped
Past participleescaped

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyescape
he, she, itescapes

Past simpleLesson

all personsescaped

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave escaped
he, she, ithas escaped

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill escape

Synonyms

20 synonyms
break loosetake it on the lam
Close in meaning

Word family

33 related words
Relatedescapeeescapist
Derivedescapableescape artistescape artistryescape characterescape clauseescape fireescape goatescape hatchescape keyescapelandescapelessescape literatureescapementescape podescaperescape rhythmescape roadescape roomescape routeescape sequenceescape toneescape valveescape velocityescapeway

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

Collocations

12 patterns
  • try to escape
  • escaped from prison
  • escaped from the
  • to escape from
  • managed to escape
  • able to escape
  • narrowly escaped
  • the escaped prisoners
  • escaped prisoner
  • narrowly escaped being
  • attempted to escape
  • escaped being being

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
escalationescalatorA2escapadeescapeeescapismeschatologyeschew
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