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escape
noun as in breaking away; getaway
Strongest matches
breakout, departure, desertion, disappearance, flight, freedom, liberation, outbreak, rescue, withdrawal
Strong matches
abdication, avoidance, AWOL, beat, bolt, break, bypassing, circumvention, decampment, deliverance, dodging, ducking, elopement, elusion, elusiveness, evasion, evasiveness, extrication, fadeout, hegira, lam, leave, out, powder, release, retreat, shunning, sidestepping, spring
Example Sentences
She escaped, walking 22 miles across the desert until she found a house around 1 a.m., collapsing at its gate.
After nearly a decade and a half of one-party rule in Sacramento, there’s no escaping responsibility for California’s deep-seated problems.
After “Empire,” Star Wars itself couldn’t escape the chokehold of cliché.
Rehman flagged down a taxi to escape the scene, leading to a police manhunt before he was arrested two days later.
Many Haitians have been crossing the shared border with the Dominican Republic to escape escalating violence and hunger, sometimes in several truckloads per day.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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