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Escaped

adjective

1.

Having escaped, especially from confinement. Synonyms: at large, loose, on the loose. "Searching for two escaped prisoners" , "Dogs loose on the streets" , "Criminals on the loose in the neighborhood"

Escape

verb

(past & past part. escaped; pres. part. escaping)

1.

Run away from confinement. Synonyms: break loose, get away.

2.

Fail to experience. Synonym: miss.

3.

Escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action. Synonyms: get away, get by, get off, get out. "I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities"

4.

Be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by. Synonym: elude.

5.

Remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion. Synonym: get away. "The president of the company never manages to get away during the summer"

6.

Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run. Synonyms: break away, bunk, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail. "The burglars escaped before the police showed up"

7.

Issue or leak, as from a small opening.

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"Escaped" Quotes from Famous Books

... puppies and kittens and chickens and goslings were always admired by the public, and the fact that the mothers and fathers in the respective groups were never quite as convincing as their offspring,—this somehow escaped ...

— Penelope's Postscripts • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... anything. An elk often runs off with several bad wounds. I only hope he don't die in the woods somewhere," said Reddy, examining the tracks of those that had escaped. ...

— The Outdoor Chums After Big Game - Or, Perilous Adventures in the Wilderness • Captain Quincy Allen

... the monsters of prehistoric times, and the fat meat is highly esteemed by the Dayaks. The animal, which is possessed of incredible strength in proportion to its size, was put in a box from which it escaped in the night through the carelessness ...

— Through Central Borneo: - An Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters - Between the Years 1913 and 1917 • Carl Lumholtz

... American colonists maintained the position and professions after 1776, as they had maintained them before 1776, presenting the contrast of their own integrity and unity and patriotism to the perfidious counsels, mercenary and un-English policy of the British Ministry and Parliament, they would have escaped the disastrous defeats and bloodshed of 1777-8, and would have repeated the victories which they had gained over the English soldiers in 1775 and the early part of 1776. Unprepared and sadly deficient in arms and ammunition, ...

— The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2 - From 1620-1816 • Egerton Ryerson

... herself from the lounge, and ran to the glass, where she put up a coil of hair in the knot it had escaped from. ...

— The Quality of Mercy • W. D. Howells

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