Synonyms for escape
32 synonyms found - words and phrases with similiar meaning. Definitionverb
- remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion
- be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by
- fail to experience
- flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
- run away from confinement
- escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action
- issue or leak, as from a small opening
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
- nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do
- the discharge of a fluid from some container
- an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy
- the act of escaping physically
- a means or way of escaping
- an avoidance of danger or difficulty
- a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild