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ESCAPE FROM
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Get rid of
Example:
I couldn't shake the car that was following me
Synonyms:
escape from; shake; shake off; throw off
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "escape from" is one way to...):
break loose; escape; get away (run away from confinement)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Context examples:
Internalized parasites escape from the parasitophorous vacuole using secreted pore-forming TcTOX molecule and replicate in the cytosol.
(Chagas Disease Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)
She was pondering, in the meanwhile, upon the possibility, without seeming very rude, of making her escape from Jane Fairfax's letter, and had almost resolved on hurrying away directly under some slight excuse, when Miss Bates turned to her again and seized her attention.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
He had still a foot in either camp, and there was no doubt he would prefer wealth and freedom with the pirates to a bare escape from hanging, which was the best he had to hope on our side.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Her escape from being one of the party to Clifton was now an escape indeed; for what would the Tilneys have thought of her, if she had broken her promise to them in order to do what was wrong in itself, if she had been guilty of one breach of propriety, only to enable her to be guilty of another?
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Fly as they would the fugitives were too slow to escape from the active savages, and from every side in the tangled woods we heard the exultant yells, the twanging of bows, and the crash and thud as ape-men were brought down from their hiding-places in the trees.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Unjust!—unjust! said my reason, forced by the agonising stimulus into precocious though transitory power: and Resolve, equally wrought up, instigated some strange expedient to achieve escape from insupportable oppression—as running away, or, if that could not be effected, never eating or drinking more, and letting myself die.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Perhaps Mrs. Jennings was in hopes, by this vigorous sketch of their future ennui, to provoke him to make that offer, which might give himself an escape from it;—and if so, she had soon afterwards good reason to think her object gained; for, on Elinor's moving to the window to take more expeditiously the dimensions of a print, which she was going to copy for her friend, he followed her to it with a look of particular meaning, and conversed with her there for several minutes.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Miss Murdstone is the point now, Peggotty, and you sha'n't escape from it.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It had not been necessary, and the few occasions of its being possible for her to go to the Hall she had contrived to evade and escape from.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
On the other hand, there are those that make toward survival, the fit individuals who escape from the rule of the obvious and the expected and adjust their lives to no matter what strange grooves they may stray into, or into which they may be forced.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
