Escaped — synonyms, definition

1. escaped (a)

escaping evading fleeing free fugitive loose outlaw released renegade runaway running away taking flight transient truant unattached unbound unconfined unrestrained unrestricted

2. escaped (a/n)

fugitive outlaw renegade runaway running away truant

3. escaped (Adjective)

at large on the loose

escaped (Adjective) — Having escaped, especially from confinement. ex. "searching for two escaped prisoners"

4. escaped (Verb)

broke away broke loose bunked eluded flew the coop got away got by got off got out headed for the hills hightailed it lammed legged it missed ran ran away scarpered scatted took to the woods turned tail

escaped (Verb) — Run away from confinement. ex. "The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison"

escaped (Verb) — Fail to experience. ex. "Fortunately, I escaped the hurricane"

escaped (Verb) — Escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action. ex. "She escapes with murder!"

escaped (Verb) — Be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by. ex. "What you are seeing in him escapes me"

escaped (Verb) — Remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion. ex. "We escaped to our summer house for a few days"

escaped (Verb) — Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run. ex. "The burglars escaped before the police showed up"

escaped (Verb) — Issue or leak, as from a small opening. ex. "Gas escaped into the bedroom"

escaped (Verb) — (computing) change characters that normally have a special meaning so that they appear as literal characters rather than having their meaning applied, e.g. by prefixing the character with a special 'escape' character. ex. "often quotation marks are escaped by prefixing with a backslash"

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