Words nearby escape
escallop, escalope, escambia, escanaba, escapade, escape, escape artist, escape beat, escape clause, escape hatch, escape key
Origin of escape
OTHER WORDS FROM escape
synonym study for escape
7. Escape, elude, evade mean to keep free of something. To escape is to succeed in keeping away from danger, pursuit, observation, etc.: to escape punishment. To elude implies baffling pursuers or slipping through an apparently tight net: The fox eluded the hounds. To evade is to turn aside from or go out of reach of a person or thing: to evade the police. See also avoid.
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Examples from the Web for escapable
They are the most escapable things we have ever tried to keep.
Pond and Stream|Arthur RansomeOn a craft like this every man instinctively knows what should be done in any moment of escapable peril.
Dave Darrin After The Mine Layers|H. Irving Hancock
British Dictionary definitions for escapable
escape
/ (ɪˈskeɪp) /
verb
noun
Derived forms of escape
escapable, adjectiveescaper, nounWord Origin for escape
C14: from Old Northern French escaper, from Vulgar Latin excappāre (unattested) to escape (literally: to remove one's cloak, hence free oneself), from ex- 1 + Late Latin cappa cloak
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Medicine definitions for escapable
escape
[ ĭ-skāp′ ]
n.
A gradual effusion from an enclosure; a leakage.
A cardiological situation in which one pacemaker defaults or an atrioventricular conduction fails, and another pacemaker sets the heart's pace for one or more beats.
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Idioms and Phrases with escapable
escape
In addition to the idiom beginning with escape
- escape notice
also see:
- narrow escape
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