Antonyms for escapes
Grammar : Noun, verb |
Spell : ih-skeyp |
Phonetic Transcription : ɪˈskeɪp |
Definition of escapes
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.
- noun breaking away; getaway
- verb break away from
- She must choose her own road, only I promise that if she escapes and we live I will not forget her deed.
- Extract from : « Fair Margaret » by H. Rider Haggard
- A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia.
- Extract from : « The Devil's Dictionary » by Ambrose Bierce
- How he escapes those claws when the lion is alive, is the wonder.
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 9 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- "The base Christian escapes," said one, who appeared to be the leader.
- Extract from : « Gomez Arias » by Joaqun Telesforo de Trueba y Coso
- Juve tracks the criminal to his secret hiding-place, but Fantômas escapes.
- Extract from : « A Nest of Spies » by Pierre Souvestre
- And there, very briefly, you have the story of my sufferings and my escapes.
- Extract from : « The Historical Nights' Entertainment » by Rafael Sabatini
- Yere he escapes wedlock by a mir'cle; an'––chains an' slavery!
- Extract from : « Faro Nell and Her Friends » by Alfred Henry Lewis
- If you keep him, well, but if he escapes, the loss is to you.
- Extract from : « The Treasure Trail » by Marah Ellis Ryan
- And his risks had been many, and his escapes narrow and frequent.
- Extract from : « The Hound From The North » by Ridgwell Cullum
- Whichever cur of you will carry this Escapes his fellow's fate.
- Extract from : « Browning's England » by Helen Archibald Clarke
Synonyms for escapes
- abdication
- abscond
- avoid
- avoidance
- AWOL
- bail out
- beat
- bolt
- break
- breakout
- burst out
- bypassing
- circumvent
- circumvention
- cut and run
- cut loose
- decamp
- decampment
- deliverance
- depart
- departure
- desert
- desertion
- disappear
- disappearance
- dodge
- dodging
- double
- duck
- duck out
- ducking
- elope
- elopement
- elude
- elusion
- elusiveness
- emerge
- eschewal
- evade
- evasion
- evasiveness
- extrication
- fadeout
- flee
- flight
- fly
- fly the coop
- freedom
- get away with
- get off
- go scot-free
- hegira
- lam
- leave
- liberation
- make getaway
- make off
- make oneself scarce
- out
- outbreak
- pass
- play hooky
- powder
- release
- rescue
- retreat
- run
- run away
- run off
- run out on
- runaround
- shun
- shunning
- sidestepping
- skip
- slip
- slip away
- spring
- steal away
- take a powder
- take flight
- take on the lam
- vanish
- withdrawal
- work out of
- wriggle out
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