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General dictionaries General (33 matching dictionaries)
  1. Escape, escape: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
  2. escape: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries [home, info]
  3. escape: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  4. escape: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
  5. escape: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
  6. escape, escape: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
  7. Escape, escape: Wordnik [home, info]
  8. escape: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
  9. escape: Wiktionary [home, info]
  10. escape: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  11. escape: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  12. escape: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info]
  13. Escape (British TV series), Escape (Enrique Iglesias song), Escape (Jessop and Palmer book), Escape (Journey album), Escape (McMillan book), Escape (Metallica song), Escape (Nine Lashes album), Escape (Rupert Holmes song), Escape (Sirius XM), Escape (TV network), Escape (The Pina Colada Song), Escape (Whodini album), Escape (film), Escape (magazine), Escape (novel), Escape (play), Escape (radio program), Escape (video game), Escape, Escape, The Escape (Animorphs), The Escape (Applegate novel), The Escape (Baldacci novel), The Escape (band), The Escape: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  14. Escape: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  15. escape: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  16. escape: Rhymezone [home, info]
  17. escape: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  18. escape: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  19. Escape: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
  20. escape: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  21. escape: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  22. escape: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  23. escape: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  24. escape: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  25. escape: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]
  26. escape: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  27. Escape (Enrique Iglesias album): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  28. escape: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  29. escape: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  30. escape: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  31. escape: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Escape: THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM [home, info]
  2. escape: Glossary of Legal Terms [home, info]
  3. ESCAPE: Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition [home, info]
  4. Escape (disambiguation), Escape (song), escape: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ESCAPE, escape: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [home, info]
  2. Escape (disambiguation), Escape (song), escape: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ESCAPE, escape: online medical dictionary [home, info]
  2. Escape (disambiguation), Escape (song), escape: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. ESCAPE: Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary [home, info]
  2. Escape: Brilliant Dream Dictionary [home, info]
  3. ESCAPE: Acronym Finder [home, info]
  4. ESCAPE: AbbreviationZ [home, info]
  5. escape: Idioms [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Escape: Bird On! [home, info]
  2. escape: Botanical Terms [home, info]

Slang dictionaries Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. escape: Urban Dictionary [home, info]

Sports dictionaries Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Escape: Backgammon [home, info]
  2. escape: Hickok Sports Glossaries [home, info]

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Quick definitions from WordNet (escape)

noun:  the act of escaping physically ("He made his escape from the mental hospital")
noun:  a means or way of escaping ("Hard work was his escape from worry")
noun:  an avoidance of danger or difficulty ("That was a narrow escape")
noun:  an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy ("Romantic novels were her escape from the stress of daily life")
noun:  the unwanted discharge of a fluid from some container ("They tried to stop the escape of gas from the damaged pipe")
noun:  a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild
noun:  nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do ("That escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive")
noun:  a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level
verb:  run away from confinement ("The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison")
verb:  remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion ("We escaped to our summer house for a few days")
verb:  issue or leak, as from a small opening ("Gas escaped into the bedroom")
verb:  flee; take to one's heels; cut and run ("The burglars escaped before the police showed up")
verb:  be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by
verb:  fail to experience
verb:  escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action

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Words similar to ESCAPE:   elude, dodging, escaped, escaper, escaping, escapism, evasion, flight, leak, leakage, miss, outflow, break loose, escape cock, escape valve, flee, get away, get by, get off, get out, more...


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