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escape

the act of escaping physically; "he made his escape from the mental hospital"; "the canary escaped from its cage"; "his flight was an indication of his guilt"

a means or way of escaping; "hard work was his escape from worry"; "they installed a second hatch as an escape"; "their escape route"

an avoidance of danger or difficulty; "that was a narrow escape"

an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy; "romantic novels were her escape from the stress of daily life"; "his alcohol problem was a form of escapism"

the unwanted discharge of a fluid from some container; "they tried to stop the escape of gas from the damaged pipe"; "he had to clean up the leak"

a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild

issue or leak, as from a small opening; "Gas escaped into the bedroom"

run away from confinement; "The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison"

remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion; "We escaped to our summer house for a few days"; "The president of the company never manages to get away during the summer"

Synonyms:

• abandonment,
• abscond,
• alienation,
• autism,
• autistic thinking,
• avenue,
• avoid,
• avoidance,
• avoidance mechanism,
• avoiding reaction,
• baffle,
• bail out,
• beg,
• blame-shifting,
• blow,
• blowhole,
• bolt,
• bow out,
• break,
• break away,
• break free,
• break jail,
• break loose,
• break out,
• breakout,
• bunk,
• channel,
• chute,
• circumvent,
• circumvention,
• clear out,
• compensation,
• cut and run,
• cut loose,
• cut out,
• debouch,
• decamp,
• decampment,
• decompensation,
• defense mechanism,
• deliverance,
• depart,
• departure,
• dereism,
• dereistic thinking,
• disappear,
• discharge,
• displacement,
• dissociation,
• distraction,
• ditch,
• diversion,
• dodge,
• dodging,
• door,
• double,
• drain,
• drainage,
• draining,
• duck,
• duck out,
• ducking,
• effluence,
• efflux,
• effluxion,
• egress,
• elope,
• elude,
• elusion,
• elusiveness,
• emanate,
• emotional insulation,
• emunctory,
• equivocation,
• escape into fantasy,
• escape mechanism,
• escape prison,
• escapism,
• eschewal,
• estuary,
• evacuation,
• evade,
• evasion,
• evasive action,
• evasiveness,
• exhaust,
• exit,
• exodus,
• fantasizing,
• fantasy,
• flee,
• flight,
• flit,
• floodgate,
• flume,
• fly,
• fly the coop,
• forbearance,
• forestalling,
• forestallment,
• get around,
• get away,
• get away from,
• get clear of,
• get free,
• get free of,
• get out,
• get out of,
• get quit of,
• get rid of,
• getaway,
• getting around,
• go on furlough,
• go on leave,
• going,
• hegira,
• isolation,
• issue,
• jailbreak,
• jink,
• jump,
• lam,
• leak,
• leakage,
• leaking,
• leave the scene,
• leaving,
• levant,
• liberation,
• loophole,
• make a getaway,
• make off,
• mosey,
• mystify,
• negativism,
• neutrality,
• nonintervention,
• noninvolvement,
• opening,
• out,
• outcome,
• outfall,
• outflow,
• outgate,
• outgo,
• outlet,
• outpouring,
• overcompensation,
• parting,
• passing,
• pore,
• port,
• prevention,
• projection,
• psychotaxis,
• puzzle,
• rationalization,
• recreation,
• refraining,
• release,
• relief,
• removal,
• resistance,
• retirement,
• retreat,
• run away,
• run off,
• runaround,
• sally port,
• scape,
• scram,
• seep,
• seepage,
• seeping,
• shake,
• shake off,
• shuffle out of,
• shunning,
• shunting off,
• shy,
• sidestep,
• sidestepping,
• sidetracking,
• skedaddle,
• skip,
• skirt,
• slip,
• slip away,
• slip off,
• slip out,
• slip the collar,
• sluice,
• sneak out,
• sociological adjustive reactions,
• spiracle,
• spout,
• stump,
• sublimation,
• substitution,
• take French leave,
• take leave,
• take off,
• tap,
• the runaround,
• throw off,
• vamoose,
• vanish,
• vent,
• ventage,
• venthole,
• vomitory,
• walkout,
• way out,
• weir,
• wish-fulfillment fantasy,
• wishful thinking,
• withdrawal,
• zigzag