· run away from confinement; "The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison"

Synonym(s): get_away, break_loose

Hypernym(s): flee, fly, take_flight

· fail to experience; "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane"

Synonym(s): miss

Hypernym(s): avoid

· escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action; "She gets away with murder!"; "I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities"

Synonym(s): get_off, get_away, get_by, get_out

Hypernym(s): avoid

· be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by; "What you are seeing in him eludes me"

Synonym(s): elude

Hypernym(s): perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound

· remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion; "We escaped to our summer house for a few days"; "The president of the company never manages to get away during the summer"

Synonym(s): get_away

Hypernym(s): escape, get_away, break_loose

· flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up"

Synonym(s): scat, run, scarper, turn_tail, lam, run_away, hightail_it, bunk, head_for_the_hills, take_to_the_woods, fly_the_coop, break_away

Hypernym(s): leave, go_forth, go_away

· issue or leak, as from a small opening; "Gas escaped into the bedroom"

Hypernym(s): issue, emerge, come_out, come_forth, go_forth, egress

· having escaped, especially from confinement; "a convict still at large"; "searching for two escaped prisoners"; "dogs loose on the streets"; "criminals on the loose in the neighborhood"

Synonym(s): at_large, loose, on_the_loose