escape

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Sheriff's detectives believe Chavez 'escape was facilitated by family members Anyone with information regarding Chavez or his escape is asked to contact Sgt. Davis at the Sheriff's Office Investigations Division at (408) 808-4500.

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  1. intransitive verb To break loose from confinement; get free: escape from jail.
  2. intransitive verb To issue from confinement or an enclosure; leak or seep out: Gas was escaping from the vent.
  3. intransitive verb To avoid a serious or unwanted outcome: escaped from the accident with their lives.
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  • His instructor, Crombie the soldier, had taught him such avoidance; but this escape was at least partly luck. —  The Source of Magic
  • Sheriff's detectives believe Chavez 'escape was facilitated by family members Anyone with information regarding Chavez or his escape is asked to contact Sgt. Davis at the Sheriff's Office Investigations Division at (408) 808-4500. —  KTVU.com - Local News
  • Ultimately, however, the rationale she presents to justify their escape is the same in all three cases, pointing to their "sense of public duty" - which dictated that they rescue themselves, as the future of Judaism was to a large extent dependent on their survival. —  FailedMessiah.com
  • The Board of Supervisors voted in February to retain an outside consultant to investigate Orozco's escape, and the National Council on Crime and Delinquency issued a 19-page report in June that found the escape was the result of an ill-prepared staff and an opportune physical layout for an escape. —  KTVU.com - Local News
  • Family tradition adds that his escape was achieved by his disguising himself as a miller and swimming across the Don from Stoneywood to Grandholm, where the laird of Grandholm, who was of opposite politics, had removed the ferry-boat, and saw but did not denounce his kinsman. —  The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
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rescue ·  release ·  flight ·  retreat ·  relief ·  adventure ·  departure ·  victory ·  capture ·  deliverance ·  exit ·  return

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escape:   escapes ·  escaped ·  escaping
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English escapen, from Old North French escaper, from Vulgar Latin *excappāre, to get out of one's cape, get away : Latin ex-, ex- + Medieval Latin cappa, cloak.

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  1. from Middle English escapen, assibilated eschapen, more commonly with initial a, ascapen, askapen, aschapen, achapen, and by apheresis scapen (later modern scape, q. v.), from Old French escaper, eschaper, exaper, French échapper = Provencal Spanish Portuguese escapar = Italian scappare, escape, prob. orig. ‘slip out of one's cape or cloak’ (with reference to thus expediting flight, or getting away after being seized); from Middle Latin ex capa, ex cappa, out of cape or cloak: L. ex, out of; Middle Latin capa, cappa, a cape or cloak: see cape, cope. Cf. Italian incappare, invest with a cape or cope, fall into a snare, be caught; Greek ἐκδύεσθαι, escape, get away, literally put off one's clothes.
  2. from escape, v. Also, by apheresis, scape: see scape, n.
 

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