Escaping Synonyms and Antonyms

To fail to be fixed by the mind, memory, or senses of
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. eluding
Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. evading
  2. eluding
  3. shunning
  4. skipping
  5. dodging
  6. eschewing
  7. shaking
  8. missing
  9. lamming
  10. fleeing
  11. ducking
  12. emerging
  13. venting
  14. jumping
  15. bunking
  16. vamoosing
  17. eloping
  18. spilling
  19. slipping
  20. gaining
  21. avoiding
  22. absconding
  23. rescuing
  24. disappearing
  25. leaking
  26. decamping
  27. deserting
  28. bolting
  29. vanishing
  30. circumventing
  31. departing
  32. bypassing
  33. leaving
  34. flying
  35. running
Antonyms:
  1. remaining
  2. capturing
  3. staying
  4. returning
To break loose and leave suddenly, as from confinement or from a difficult or threatening situation
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. lamming
  2. flying
  3. fleeing
  4. decamping
  5. absconding
Be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. eluding

Escaping Sentence Examples

  • If he was trying to prevent her from escaping, he was doing a poor job of it.

  • He succeeded in escaping from the Tower, but was again captured, was condemned to death by the new "high court of justice" on the 8th of March 1649, and was beheaded together with the duke of Hamilton and Lord Holland the next day.

  • Where surface water is banked up against the land, as by the equatorial and Gulf Stream drift currents, it appears to penetrate to very considerable depths; the escaping stream currents are at first of great vertical thickness and part of the water at their sources has a downward movement.

  • She had enough strength to control the demon; maybe she could prevent it from escaping to a new host.

  • A revival of Irredentism in connection with the execution of an Austrian deserter named Oberdank, who after escaping into Italy endeavoured to return to Austria with explosive bombs in his possession, and the cordial references to France made by Depretis at Stradella (8th October 1882), prevented the French government from suspecting the existence of the alliance, or from ceasing to strive after a Franco-Italian understanding.

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