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1. escape
verb. ['ɪˈskeɪp'] run away from confinement.
Synonyms
- take flight
- slip
- get away
- fly
- elude
- bilk
- shake off
- escape from
- shake
- break out
- break away
- break loose
- throw off
- flee
- break
- evade
Antonyms
- pop in
- hop on
- work time
- take office
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Rhymes with Escape
- videotape
- scrape
- reshape
- swape
- snape
- slape
- grape
- drape
- crepe
- agape
- tape
- shape
- rape
- pape
- lape
- knape
- gape
How do you pronounce escape?
Pronounce escape as ɪˈskeɪp.
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How to spell escape? Is it escopo? Or excape? Common misspellings are:
- escopo
- excape
Sentences with escape
1. Noun, singular or mass
A hangout like this could be in any cool city escape.
2. Verb, base form
If the tortoise can not see out they will spend less time trying to escape.
Quotes about escape
1. Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.
- Clive Bell
2. Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.
- Russell Simmons
3. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
- John Green, Looking for Alaska
2. escape
verb. ['ɪˈskeɪp'] fail to experience.
Synonyms
- miss
Antonyms
- disinherit
- be born
3. escape
noun. ['ɪˈskeɪp'] the act of escaping physically.
Synonyms
- prisonbreak
- evasion
- jailbreak
- prison-breaking
- hegira
- hejira
- flight
- breakout
- exodus
- skedaddle
- running away
- break
- lam
- getaway
Antonyms
- contract in
- accept
- honor
- admit
4. escape
verb. ['ɪˈskeɪp'] escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action.
Synonyms
- get away
- get by
- avoid
- get off
- evade
Antonyms
- log in
- dock
- get on
- come
5. escape
noun. ['ɪˈskeɪp'] an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy.
Synonyms
- recreation
- diversion
Antonyms
- dislodge
- travel
- move
6. escape
verb. ['ɪˈskeɪp'] be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by.
Synonyms
- vex
- baffle
- beat
- flummox
- elude
- stick
- pose
- gravel
- puzzle
- defy
- bewilder
- dumbfound
- resist
- perplex
- get
- stupefy
- mystify
- amaze
- nonplus
Antonyms
- confine
- fail
- stay in place
- idle
7. escape
noun. ['ɪˈskeɪp'] nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do.
Synonyms
- evasion
- negligence
- dodging
- neglect
- carelessness
- goldbricking
- shirking
- soldiering
- nonperformance
- circumvention
- slacking
- goofing off
- escape mechanism
- malingering
Antonyms
- deglycerolize
- undeceive
- unaffectedness
- uncover
8. escape
noun. ['ɪˈskeɪp'] an avoidance of danger or difficulty.
Synonyms
- dodging
- shunning
- avoidance
Antonyms
- stand still
- conformist
- rested
- detach
9. escape
noun. ['ɪˈskeɪp'] a means or way of escaping.
Synonyms
- agency
- way
Antonyms
- allow
- please
- reassure
10. escape
noun. ['ɪˈskeɪp'] a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild.
Synonyms
- plant
- flora
Antonyms
- go
- take away
- repel