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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
AWOL, abdication, avoidance, 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
Further north, in the forests of Ubud, resorts are marketing themselves as a sanctuary to escape the bustle of the south.
GMP said the mother and child were able to escape uninjured with their pets after their vehicle's alarm sounded as it burned.
She told NBC News in a 1998 interview filmed in Havana that she escaped because she was afraid for her life and that she "would never receive justice" in the US.
The Polish-born actress, 96, who escaped a Nazi ghetto as a child and forged a successful career in dance and drama, is thought to have died last weekend at the Pegasos clinic near Basel.
Red warning lights flash above the door, and inside there is an emergency escape hatch into a tunnel in case something goes wrong.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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