ESCAPE

Definition of ESCAPE

  1. (verb)run away from confinement
  2. (verb)fail to experience
  3. (verb)escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action
  4. (verb)be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by
  5. (verb)remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion
  6. (verb)flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
  7. (verb)issue or leak, as from a small opening
  8. (noun)the act of escaping physically
  9. (noun)an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy
  10. (noun)nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do
  11. (noun)an avoidance of danger or difficulty
  12. (noun)a means or way of escaping
  13. (noun)a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild
  14. (noun)the discharge of a fluid from some container
  15. (noun)a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level