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S: (v) escape, get away, break loose (run away from confinement) "The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison"
S: (v) miss, escape (fail to experience) "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane"
S: (v) get off, get away, get by, get out, escape (escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action) "She gets away with murder!"; "I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities"
S: (v) elude, escape (be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by) "What you are seeing in him eludes me"
S: (v) escape, get away (remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion) "We escaped to our summer house for a few days"; "The president of the company never manages to get away during the summer"
S: (v) scat, run, scarper, turn tail, lam, run away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills, take to the woods, escape, fly the coop, break away (flee; take to one's heels; cut and run) "If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up"
S: (v) escape (issue or leak, as from a small opening) "Gas escaped into the bedroom"

S: (adj) at large, escaped, loose, on the loose (having escaped, especially from confinement) "a convict still at large"; "searching for two escaped prisoners"; "dogs loose on the streets"; "criminals on the loose in the neighborhood"