We found 44 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word escape:
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 General (27 matching dictionaries)
- escape: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
- escape: Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
- escape: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
- ESCAPE, Escape, escape: Wordnik [home, info]
- escape: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
- Escape: Wiktionary [home, info]
- escape: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
- escape: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
- escape: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
- escape: Dictionary.com [home, info]
- escape: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
- escape: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
- escape: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
- escape: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info]
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- Escape: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
- escape: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
- escape: Rhymezone [home, info]
- escape: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
- escape: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
- Escape: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
- escape: Free Dictionary [home, info]
- escape: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
- escape: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
- escape: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
- escape: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
- escape: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]
Business (3 matching dictionaries)
- Escape: THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM [home, info]
- ESCAPE: Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition [home, info]
- Escape (disambiguation), Escape (song), escape: Legal dictionary [home, info]
Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
- ESCAPE, escape: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [home, info]
- Escape (disambiguation), Escape (song), escape: Encyclopedia [home, info]
Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
- escape: Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary [home, info]
- ESCAPE, escape: online medical dictionary [home, info]
- Escape (disambiguation), Escape (song), escape: Medical dictionary [home, info]
Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
- ESCAPE: Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary [home, info]
- Escape: Brilliant Dream Dictionary [home, info]
- ESCAPE: Acronym Finder [home, info]
- ESCAPE: AbbreviationZ [home, info]
- escape: Idioms [home, info]
Science (2 matching dictionaries)
- Escape: Bird On! [home, info]
- escape: Botanical Terms [home, info]
Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
- Escape: Backgammon [home, info]
- escape: Hickok Sports Glossaries [home, info]
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Quick definitions (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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