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Meaning of escape | Babel Free

Noun CEFR A2 Frequent
ɪˈskeɪp

Definitions

  1. To get free; to free oneself
  2. The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
    countable, uncountable
  3. To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from
  4. a mania for running away.
  5. Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
    countable, uncountable
  6. To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment
  7. Obsolete, swimming away, especially escaping by swimming.
    Obsolete
  8. Something that has escaped; an escapee.
    countable, uncountable
  9. To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by
  10. the art or technique of escaping from chains, locked trunks, etc., especially when exhibited as a form of entertainment. — escapist, n., adj.
  11. A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life.
    countable, uncountable
  12. To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted literally, instead of with any special meaning it would usually have in the same context, often by prefixing with another character
  13. fleeing from justice, as by a criminal.
  14. escape key
    countable, uncountable
  15. a flight or escape to safety.
  16. The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).
    countable, uncountable
  17. (act of) escaping; state of having escaped. Make your escape while the guard is away; There have been several escapes from that prison; Escape was impossible; The explosion was caused by an escape of gas. ontsnappings, ontvlugtings إنْبِعاث، تَسَرُّب бягство fuga útěk, únik die Flucht, das Entweichen flugt; udslip απόδραση, διαφυγή, διαρροήfuga põgenemine, väljavool فرار؛ نشت pako évasion; fuiteבריחה छुटकारा bijeg, bježanje (meg)szökés pelarian flótti; gasleki fuga, evasione 逃亡 탈출 pabėgimas, ...
  18. A successful shot from a snooker position.
    countable, uncountable
  19. the tendency to escape from unpleasant reality into day-dreams etc. ontvlugting هُروب من الواقِع إلى الخَيال бягство escapismo eskapismus die Flucht vor der Realität eskapisme; virkelighedsflugt τάση φυγής από την πραγματικότητα escapismo eskapism گریز گرایی eskapismi évasion מִפלָט מִן הַמְצִיאוּת पलायनवाद bijeg od stvarnosti légvárépítés eskapisme veruleikaflótti evasione dalla realtà 現実逃避 현실 도피 bėgimas nuo tikrovės bēgšana no īstenības eskapisme escapismevirkelighetsflukt, eskapisme eskapi...
    etc
  20. A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.
    countable, uncountable
  21. , adjective. ontvlugter, ontsnapper تَهَرُّبي، مُتَهَرِّب من الواقِع който бяга от действителността escapista únikový Zerstreuungs-... eskapistisk που κάνει κπ. να ξεφύγει από την πραγματικότητα escapista eskapist گریز گرای eskapisti d'évasion קָלִיל וּמבָדֵר पलायनवादी eskapistički, onaj koji bježi od stvarnosti légvárépítő eskapis sá sem stundar veruleikaflótta 現実逃避者 [] な 현실 도피적인 kuris bėga nuo tikrovės tāds, kurš bēg no īstenības orang yang lari dari kenyataan escapist eskapist marzyciel(sk...
  22. That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake, oversight, or transgression.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
  23. To break loose from confinement; get free: escape from jail.
  24. A sally.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
  25. To issue from confinement or enclosure; leak or seep out: Gas was escaping from the vent.
  26. An apophyge.
    countable, uncountable
  27. A cultivated plant found growing as though wild, dispersed by some agency.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Azərbaycanca qaçış
Беларуская уцёкі
Bosanski beg fuga
Català eludir escapar fugir fuita
Čeština eskapáda únik uniknout útěk
Cymraeg dianc
Esperanto eskapi
Eesti pääsema
Euskara ihes egin
Gàidhlig dol-às
Galego ciscar fuxir iscar liscar rispar
עברית נמלט
हिन्दी छूट
Hrvatski beg fuga
Magyar menekülés
Հայերեն փախուստ փախչել
Bahasa Indonesia kabur kelepasan larian pelarian
Íslenska sleppa
ქართული გაქცევა
ខ្មែរ គេច រួច
Kurdî beg firar firar unîk
Te Reo Māori oma
Македонски бег бегство
मराठी सुटका
Bahasa Melayu lari
Malti ħarab
Română evada evadare scăpa scăpare
Slovenčina utiecť
Slovenščina beg zbežati
Shqip arratisem
Српски beg fuga
Kiswahili kuponyoka kwepa
தமிழ் தப்பி
తెలుగు పలాయనము
Tagalog pagtakas takas
Tiếng Việt thoát tranh trốn thoát

Examples

“The prisoners made their escape by digging a tunnel.”
“But what about the flocks of Waxbills? Are they escapes gone feral, or are they spreading from Africa?”
“You forgot to insert an escape in the datastream.”
“I should have been more accurate, corrected all those former escapes.”
“thousand escapes of wit”

CEFR level

A2
Elementary
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.
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