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escape
noun as in breaking away; getaway
Strongest matches
breakout, departure, desertion, disappearance, flight, freedom, liberation, outbreak, rescue, withdrawal
Strong matches
abdication, avoidance, AWOL, beat, bolt, break, bypassing, circumvention, decampment, deliverance, dodging, ducking, elopement, elusion, elusiveness, evasion, evasiveness, extrication, fadeout, hegira, lam, leave, out, powder, release, retreat, shunning, sidestepping, spring
Example Sentences
But he kept visits brief, fearing he wouldn’t have enough time to escape if state-aligned gunmen came to attack.
A true paradigm shift could include strategic buffer zones, permanent escape routes and urban firebreaks.
Football had been his escape from the favelas of Brazil's Porto Alegre, but now it felt like a dead end.
"The purpose must have been to kill the occupants of that house and to stop them escaping."
He succeeded in escaping a PoW camp at Arras in France.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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