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
- 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
- abscond
- avoid
- bail out
- bolt
- burst out
- circumvent
- cut and run
- cut loose
- decamp
- depart
- desert
- disappear
- dodge
- double
- duck
- duck out
- elope
- elude
- emerge
- evade
- flee
- fly
- fly the coop
- get away with
- get off
- go scot-free
- leave
- make getaway
- make off
- make oneself scarce
- pass
- play hooky
- run
- run away
- run off
- run out on
- shun
- skip
- slip
- slip away
- steal away
- take a powder
- take flight
- take on the lam
- vanish
- work out of
- wriggle out
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