Meaning of "escape" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ESCAPE

From Old Northern French escaper, from Vulgar Latin excappāre (unattested) to escape (literally: to remove one's cloak, hence free oneself), from ex-1 + Late Latin cappa cloak.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF ESCAPE

escape  [ɪˈskeɪp]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ESCAPE

Escape is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb escape in English.

WHAT DOES ESCAPE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Escape

Escape may refer to: ▪ Escapism, mental diversion by means of entertainment or recreation ▪ Escapology, the study and practice of escaping from physical restraints ▪ Prison escape, the act of breaking out of prison ▪ Escape response, instinctive behaviour in animals...

Definition of escape in the English dictionary

The first definition of escape in the dictionary is to get away or break free from. Other definition of escape is to manage to avoid. Escape is also usually foll by from to issue gradually, as from a crack or fissure; seep; leak.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO ESCAPE

PRESENT

Present

I escape

you escape

he/she/it escapes

we escape

you escape

they escape

Present continuous

I am escaping

you are escaping

he/she/it is escaping

we are escaping

you are escaping

they are escaping

Present perfect

I have escaped

you have escaped

he/she/it has escaped

we have escaped

you have escaped

they have escaped

Present perfect continuous

I have been escaping

you have been escaping

he/she/it has been escaping

we have been escaping

you have been escaping

they have been escaping

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I escaped

you escaped

he/she/it escaped

we escaped

you escaped

they escaped

Past continuous

I was escaping

you were escaping

he/she/it was escaping

we were escaping

you were escaping

they were escaping

Past perfect

I had escaped

you had escaped

he/she/it had escaped

we had escaped

you had escaped

they had escaped

Past perfect continuous

I had been escaping

you had been escaping

he/she/it had been escaping

we had been escaping

you had been escaping

they had been escaping

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will escape

you will escape

he/she/it will escape

we will escape

you will escape

they will escape

Future continuous

I will be escaping

you will be escaping

he/she/it will be escaping

we will be escaping

you will be escaping

they will be escaping

Future perfect

I will have escaped

you will have escaped

he/she/it will have escaped

we will have escaped

you will have escaped

they will have escaped

Future perfect continuous

I will have been escaping

you will have been escaping

he/she/it will have been escaping

we will have been escaping

you will have been escaping

they will have been escaping

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would escape

you would escape

he/she/it would escape

we would escape

you would escape

they would escape

Conditional continuous

I would be escaping

you would be escaping

he/she/it would be escaping

we would be escaping

you would be escaping

they would be escaping

Conditional perfect

I would have escape

you would have escape

he/she/it would have escape

we would have escape

you would have escape

they would have escape

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been escaping

you would have been escaping

he/she/it would have been escaping

we would have been escaping

you would have been escaping

they would have been escaping

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you escape
we let´s escape
you escape

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to escape

Past participle

escaped

Present Participle

escaping

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «ESCAPE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «escape» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of escape

abscond · avoid · avoidance · baffle · body-swerve · bolt · break · circumvent · circumvention · decamp · decampment · discharge · distraction · diversion · do a runner · do a Skase · dodge · drain · duck · effluence · efflux · elude · elusion · emanate · emanation · emission · evade · evasion · exude · flee · flight · fly · fly the coop · get away · getaway · gush · hook it · issue · leak · leakage · miss · outflow · outpour · outpouring · pastime · puzzle · recreation · relaxation · relief · seepage · shun · skedaddle · skip · spurt · steer clear of · stump · take a powder · take off

TRANSLATION OF ESCAPE

Find out the translation of escape to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of escape from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «escape» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 逃跑
• Translator English - Spanish: huida
• English: escape
• Translator English - Hindi: भागने
• Translator English - Arabic: هُرُوب
• Translator English - Russian: спасение
• Translator English - Portuguese: fuga
• Translator English - Bengali: অব্যাহতি
• Translator English - French: fuite
• Translator English - Malay: melarikan diri
• Translator English - German: Entkommen
• Translator English - Japanese: 逃亡
• Translator English - Korean: 탈출
• Translator English - Javanese: Uwal
• Translator English - Vietnamese: sự trốn thoát
• Translator English - Tamil: தப்பிக்கும்
• Translator English - Marathi: निसटणे
• Translator English - Turkish: kaçış
• Translator English - Italian: fuga
• Translator English - Polish: ucieczka
• Translator English - Ukrainian: втеча
• Translator English - Romanian: evadare
• Translator English - Greek: απόδραση
• Translator English - Afrikaans: ontsnapping
• Translator English - Swedish: flykt
• Translator English - Norwegian: flukt

10 QUOTES WITH «ESCAPE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word escape.

1

Jhene Aiko

You know how a lot of people say, 'I lose myself in music,' or 'I like to escape,' but I want my music to be more of an awakening. I want it to make people to be aware of life; I don't want my music to be a distraction. I want to light a path.

2

Idi Amin

I was a good soldier in the British Army. I was born in a very, very poor family. And I enlisted to escape hunger. But my officers were Scottish and they loved me. The Scots are good, you know.

3

Robert Anthony

The best way to escape from your problem is to solve it.

4

Aristotle

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

5

Billie Joe Armstrong

The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.

6

Antonin Artaud

Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.

7

Karl Barth

Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.

8

Clive Bell

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.

9

Satya Bhabha

You couldn't escape the literary atmosphere in our home. I grew up as a Britisher. I played a protagonist of every nationality in stage adaptations of Shakespeare and Brecht. I graduated from Yale. When I moved to the U.S., I realized with some amount of surprise that I was seen as an ethnic actor.

10

William Blackstone

It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ESCAPE»

Discover the use of escape in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to escape and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Escape from Camp 14: One man's remarkable odyssey from North ...

A gripping, terrifying memoir with a searing sense of place, ESCAPE FROM CAMP 14 will unlock, through Shin, a dark and secret nation, taking readers to a place they have never before been allowed to go. ‘This is a story unlike any ...

Blaine Harden, 2012

Escape: The True Story of the Only Westerner Ever to Break ...

Amid the tragic, ruthless, and forgotten, one man resolves to do what no other has done: escape. This is the true story of drug smuggler David McMillan's perilous break-out from Asia's most notorious prison.

David McMillan, 2008

Escape

Having survived for so long on the deserted island, Luke, Charla, Will, Lysa, J.J., and Ian realize that their enemies are closer than they had expected and soon discover that they will have only one chance at an escape. Original.

Gordon Korman, 2001

Escape: Children of the Holocaust

Presents seven true stories of brave boys and girls who lived through the Holocaust.

Allan Zullo, 2011

Escape

Escape exposes a world tantamount to a prison camp, created by religious fanatics who, in the name of God, deprive their followers the right to make choices, force women to be totally subservient to men, and brainwash children in church-run ...

Carolyn Jessop, Laura Palmer, 2007

Escape: Teens who Escaped from the Holocaust to Freedom

Tells the stories of four teenagers who survived the horrors that the Nazis perpetrated on Jews during World War II.

Sandra Giddens, 1999

Escape

During the Spanish Inquisition, Bartolomi, a Protestant, and Catalina are in love. Bartolomi is imprisoned, and Catalina is taken far away and promised in marriage. How will they reunite?

James R. Hughes, 2006

Escape

As these two fast-paced plots interweave with explosive twists and turns, Tanenbaum dares to ask: Is it acceptable for a person to commit murder if the killer believes it is God's will?

Robert K. Tanenbaum, 2009

Escape and the Man who Questions Death

"This collection contains two plays by Gao Xingjian, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2000.

Xingjian Gao, 2007

Escape

A novel.

Mary Sanders Smith, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ESCAPE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term escape is used in the context of the following news items.

I tried to escape my privilege with low-wage work. Instead, I came …

I attended the Edmund Burke School, one of Northwest Washington's small private prep schools, where college acceptance rates were close to ... «Newsday, Jul 15»

Sweat, Matt not first to escape from Dannemora prison, Albany …

In the early moments of Matt and Sweat's escape, Cuomo noted: "This was the first breakout since 1865, and I want to make sure that it's the last ... «Syracuse.com, Jul 15»

Help young jobseekers escape unemployment trap, urges OECD

Young people who finished school during the financial crisis and have struggled to find work may find their future career opportunities limited. «The Guardian, Jul 15»

Man injures Tampa police officer while trying to escape from patrol …

TAMPA — A Tampa police officer was mildly injured after an unidentified man under arrest barreled into him as he tried to escape a police car. «Tampabay.com, Jul 15»

Serena Williams' grace helps us escape the banality of racism ... for …

The African American tennis powerhouse maintains professionalism and poise in the face of racism on and of the courts. And then she goes out ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»

Big Brother: Chloe tries to escape following explosive argument with …

The 25-year-old attempted to leave through the fire escape after Danny admitted to being disappointed with her decision to take £5000 for ... «Evening Standard, Jul 15»

Trevor Bauer and the Cleveland Indians attempting to escape 'The …

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The fastball aimed at the sky was intended to give Trevor Bauer a chance to reset. In "The Twilight Zone," though, expect ... «cleveland.com, Jul 15»

Accused attempts to escape from Glasgow Sheriff Court

A man has tried to escape from a courtroom after he was told he would be remanded into custody before trial. Kenneth Porter jumped over the ... «BBC News, Jul 15»

Zero Escape: Volume 3 Limited Edition Includes A Bonus Watch

image Aksys announced Zero Escape: Volume 3 at Anime Expo, which continues the story from the previous two Zero Escape titles. «Siliconera, Jul 15»

Jennifer Lopez Is The Kind of Friend Who Will Help You Escape …

If you need to escape from a religion that some people think is a cult, Jennifer Lopez is there for you. In an interview with Access Hollywood ... «Radio.com Music and Entertainment News, Jul 15»