Dictionary entry

Escape (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Es‐cape″, v. i. 1. To flee, and become secure from danger; — often followed by from or out of.

Haste, for thy life escape, nor look behind�� Keble.

2. To get clear from danger or evil of any form; to be passed without harm.

Such heretics... would have been thought fortunate, if they escaped with life. Macaulay.

3. To get free from that which confines or holds; — used of persons or things; as, to escape from prison, from arrest, or from slavery; gas escapes from the pipes; electricity escapes from its conductors.

To escape out of these meshes. Thackeray.