escapes

Noun

• the act of escaping physically
• an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy
• nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do
• an avoidance of danger or difficulty
• a means or way of escaping
• a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild
• the discharge of a fluid from some container
• a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level
• plural of escape

Verb

• run away from confinement
• fail to experience
• escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action
• be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by
• remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion
• flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
• issue or leak, as from a small opening
• third-person singular simple present indicative of escape

Synonyms

break away, break loose, bunk, dodging, elude, escape, escape cock, escape valve, escapism, evasion, flight, fly the coop, get away, get by, get off, get out, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, leak, leakage, miss, outflow, relief valve, run, run away, safety valve, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail