Synonyms for escape
- verb
- noun
Most common
break away flee run abscond get off make off break loose avoid
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Break away
break away, flee, run, abscond, cut and run, turn tail, fly the coop, decamp, high-tail it, bunk, scat, fly formal dated, lam slang, scarper slang UK
3. Break loose
Other
Noun
1. Release
Other
run-away, get-away, flight, escapism, deliverance, vent, get-out informal, riddance, abscondment rare, escapage rare
Definitions
- v. 1
To get free; to free oneself.
The prisoners escaped by jumping over a wall.
- v. 2
To break out of confinement.
The prisoners escaped their cell.
- n. 1
The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
The prisoners made their escape by digging a tunnel.
- n. 2
Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
Related words
Example sentences
- flee Learn that of foreigners, but don't flee your own.
By length
- 3 letters
- run1, fly1, lam1
- 4 letters
- miss1, slip1, leak1, flee1, vent1, bunk1, scat1
- 5 letters
- avoid2, evade2, elude2
- 6 letters
- flight1, emerge2, decamp2
- 7 letters
- release2, evasion3, dodging2, leakage2, outflow2, abscond2, scarper
- 8 letters
- riddance2, escapism4, escapage
- 11 letters
- deliverance4, abscondment
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (avoid2 = 2 syllables).