Antonyms for escaping

Grammar : Verb

Spell : ih-skeyp

Phonetic Transcription : ɪˈskeɪp

Definition of escaping

Origin : c.1300, from Old North French escaper, Old French eschaper (12c., Modern French échapper), from Vulgar Latin *excappare, literally "get out of one's cape, leave a pursuer with just one's cape," from Latin ex- "out of" (see ex-) + Late Latin cappa "mantle" (see cap (n.)). Related: Escaped; escaping.

verb break away from

Example sentences :

Immediately after escaping from this peril, a still greater one had befallen him.
Extract from : « Tanglewood Tales » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The utmost we can do is, to warn you in time, and to give you an opportunity of escaping them.
Extract from : « The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby » by Charles Dickens

The keeper, and his officers, and their wives and children, were escaping.
Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens

Hast thou heard the saying of Gwgan, After escaping from the turmoil?
Extract from : « Y Gododin » by Aneurin

She had imagined him escaping from her, but he had remained with her, and loved her.
Extract from : « A Spirit in Prison » by Robert Hichens

George was then too near the savage, to think of escaping by flight.
Extract from : « Chronicles of Border Warfare » by Alexander Scott Withers

After the capitulation he was made prisoner, and in escaping was wounded.
Extract from : « A Zola Dictionary » by J. G. Patterson

This was caused by the escaping gas going through the valve.
Extract from : « Harper's Young People, June 15, 1880 » by Various

Somebody had sworn he had seen him escaping through a window.
Extract from : « Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille » by Emile Zola

A sunbeam, escaping from beneath a cloud, gilded the fine drops of water.
Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola

Synonyms for escaping

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