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escape - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | escape |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | breaking away; getaway |
| Synonyms: | avoidance, beat, bolt, break, deliverance, departure, desertion, disappearance, evasion, evasiveness, flight, freedom, leave, liberation, out, outbreak, powder, release, rescue, retreat, slip, spring, withdrawal, AWOL, abdication, breakout, bypassing, circumvention, decampment, dodging, ducking, elopement, elusion, elusiveness, eschewal, extrication, fadeout, hegira, lam, runaround, shunning, sidestepping |
| Antonyms: | capture, maintenance, stay |
| Main Entry: | escape |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | break away from |
| Synonyms: | abscond, avoid, bail out*, bolt, circumvent, cut loose*, decamp, depart, desert, disappear, dodge, double, duck, elope, elude, emerge, evade, flee, fly, get off*, leave, make off*, pass, run, shun, skip, slip, vanish, burst out, cut and run, duck out, fly the coop, get away with, go scot-free, make getaway, make oneself scarce, play hooky, run away, run off, run out on, slip away, steal away, take a powder, take flight, take on the lam, work out of, wriggle out |
| Antonyms: | capture, remain, stay |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Synonyms: |
-nouns
escape, scape; avolation, elopement, flight; evasion (avoidance) [more]; retreat; narrow escape, hairbreadth escape; close call; come off, impunity., [Means of escape] loophole (opening) [more]; path [more]; refuse [more]; vent, vent peg; safety valve; drawbridge, fire escape., reprieve (deliverance) [more]; liberation [more]. refugee (fugitive) [more].
-verbs
escape, scape; make one's escape, effect one's escape, make good one's escape; break jail; get off, get clear off, get well out of; echapper belle, save one's bacon; weather the storm (safe) [more]; escape scot- free., elude, make off (avoid) [more];. march off (go away) [more]; give one the slip; slip through the hands, slip through the fingers; slip the collar, wriggle out of prison, break out, break loose, break loose from prison; break away, slip away, get away; find vent, find a hole to creep out of., disappear, vanish.
-adjectives
.escaping, escaped stolen away, fled.
-phrases
the bird has flown the coop.
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| Main Entry: | abscond |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | run away, depart secretly |
| Synonyms: | beat it*, bolt*, break, clear out*, decamp, disappear, escape, fade*, flee, get, jump*, leave, make off, pull out, quit, scram*, skedaddle*, slip, split*, take off*, vamoose*, vanish, cut and run, dog it, duck out, fly the coop, go AWOL, go south, hightail, make a break, make scarce, run off, skip out, sneak away, steal away |
| Antonyms: | abide, continue, endure, remain, stay, stop, yield, give up |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | antipathy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strong dislike, disgust |
| Synonyms: | abhorrence, allergy, animosity, animus, antagonism, aversion, avoidance, bad blood*, distaste, enmity, escape, evasion, hate, hatred, hostility, ill will, incompatibility, loathing, opposition, rancor, repugnance, repulsion, contrariety, dyspathy, eschewal, repellency |
| Antonyms: | admiration, appreciation, approval, esteem, honor, like, liking, love, rapport, regard, respect, sympathy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | avoid |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | refrain or stay away from; prevent |
| Synonyms: | abstain, avert, bypass, circumvent, deflect, desist, ditch, divert, dodge, duck, elude, escape, eschew, evade, fend off, flee, hide, jump, obviate, recoil, shake, shake off, shirk, shun, shy, sidestep, skip*, skirt*, weave, withdraw, circumlocute, fake out, give the slip, hold off, keep clear, lay low*, run for cover, shake and bake, shrink from, shuffle off, skip out on, skip town, stay away, stay out, steer clear of, step aside, turn aside, ward off |
| Notes: | avert means 'prevent, turn away' and avoid means 'stay clear of, shun' |
| Antonyms: | face, meet, seek, want |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | avoidance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | eluding; preventing |
| Synonyms: | delay, departure, dodge, escape, evasion, flight, forbearance, parry, passive resistance, prevention, recession, recoil, restraint, retreat, run-around, self-restraint, absention, circumvention, dodging, elusion, escapism, eschewal, nonparticipation, shirking, shunning, steering clear of |
| Antonyms: | meeting |
| Main Entry: | break away |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | depart |
| Synonyms: | escape, flee, fly, leave, quit, split*, part company, run away |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | circumvent |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fool, mislead |
| Synonyms: | avoid, beat, beguile, bilk, bypass, cramp, crimp, deceive, detour, disappoint, dodge, dupe, elude, ensnare, entrap, escape, evade, foil, frustrate, hoodwink, outflank, outwit, overreach, prevent, queer, ruin, shun, sidestep, skirt, stave off, stump, stymie, thwart, trick, circumnavigate, get around, steer clear of, ward off |
| Antonyms: | aid, allow, assist, help, permit |
| Main Entry: | decamp |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | depart suddenly |
| Synonyms: | beat it, bolt, break camp, clear out, depart, disappear, escape, evacuate, flee, hit the road*, scram, skedaddle*, vamoose, head for the hills, hightail, make a break for it, make oneself scarce, make tracks, run away, slip away |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | desert |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | abandon, defect |
| Synonyms: | abscond, bail out*, beach, betray, bolt, check out*, chuck, cop out*, decamp, depart, duck*, escape, flee, fly, forsake, go, jilt, leave, leave in the lurch, light, maroon, opt out, pull out, quit, relinquish, renounce, resign, split*, strand, take off, tergiversate, throw over, vacate, walk, apostatize, crawl out, give up, go AWOL, go back on, go over the hill, go west, leave high and dry, leave stranded, play truant, run out on, sneak off, take a hike, violate oath |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, come back, help, stay, support |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | desertion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abandonment |
| Synonyms: | abrogation, avoidance, betrayal, departure, derelict, dereliction, disaffection, divorce, escape, evasion, flight, rejection, renunciation, repudiation, resignation, retreat, secession, treachery, withdrawal, absconding, apostasy, backsliding, castoff, defecting, departing, disavowal, disavowing, elusion, falling away, falseness, forsaking, going back on, leaving, marooning, perfidy, recreancy, relinquishment, retirement, running out on, tergiversation, truancy |
| Antonyms: | aid, assistance, help, staying |
| Main Entry: | diaspora |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the spreading out of a group of people |
| Synonyms: | dispersion, dissolution, escape, exodus, disbandment, dispersal, mass exodus, refugee flow |
| Main Entry: | disappear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | vanish; cease |
| Synonyms: | abandon, abscond, clear, decamp, depart, die, disperse, dissipate, dissolve, ebb, end, escape, evanesce, evaporate, exit, expire, fade, flee, fly, go, leave, melt, pass, pass away, perish, recede, retire, retreat, sink, vacate, vamoose*, wane, withdraw, be done for, be gone, be lost, be no more, be swallowed up, cease to exist, come to naught, dematerialize, die out, drop out of sight, end gradually, evanish, fade away, go south, leave no trace, melt away, take flight |
| Antonyms: | appear, arrive, come in |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disappearance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | vanishing |
| Synonyms: | departure, desertion, disintegration, dissipation, dissolution, eclipse, escape, evanescence, evaporation, exit, exodus, fading, flight, loss, melting, passing, recession, removal, wane, withdrawal, ceasing to exist, decline and fall, dematerialization, disappearing act, dispersal, ebbing, going, receding, retirement, wearing away |
| Antonyms: | appearance, arrival, coming, entrance |
| Main Entry: | dodge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | avoid |
| Synonyms: | dark, deceive, ditch, duck, elude, equivocate, escape, evade, fence, fend off, fudge*, hedge, lurch, malinger, parry, pussyfoot*, shake, shake off*, shift, shirk, shuffle, sidestep, skirt, slide, slip, swerve, tergiversate, trick, weasel*, circumlocute, get around, get out of, give the slip, juke, move to the side, put the move on, short-circuit, skip out on, tergiverse, turn aside |
| Antonyms: | confront, encounter, face, meet, stand up to |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | duck |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | drop down; avoid |
| Synonyms: | bend, bob, bow, crouch, dip, dive, dodge, double, elude, escape, evade, fence, lower, lurch, parry, plunge, shirk, shun, shy, sidestep, stoop, submerge, move to side |
| Antonyms: | face, jump, meet |
| Main Entry: | egress |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | passage out |
| Synonyms: | departure, emanation, emergence, escape, exit, exodus, issue, opening, outlet, vent, way out, withdrawal, doorway, exiting, setting-out |
| Antonyms: | entrance |
| Main Entry: | elope |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | run away to be married |
| Synonyms: | abscond, bolt, decamp, disappear, escape, flee, fly, leave, skip*, go secretly, go to Gretna Green, run off, slip away, slip out, steal away |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | emanation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emergence, discharge |
| Synonyms: | arising, beginning, derivation, drainage, efflux, effusion, ejaculation, emission, escape, exhalation, flow, flowing, gush, origin, origination, outflow, proceeding, radiation, effluence, effluent, emerging, exudation, issuance, issuing, leakage, oozing, outpour, springing, welling |
| Antonyms: | withdrawal, taking |
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