escape
verb (used without object)
to slip or get away, as from confinement or restraint; gain or regain liberty.
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At Leith Hill, in Surrey, trees are being felled by a number of unescaped German prisoners.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, September 19, 1917 by Various