What is the meaning of escaped?

verb

  • Run away from confinement.
    • usage: "The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison"
  • Fail to experience.
    • usage: "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane"
  • Escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action.
    • usage: "She gets away with murder"; "I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities"
  • Be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by.
    • usage: "What you are seeing in him eludes me"
  • Remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion.
    • usage: "We escaped to our summer house for a few days"; "The president of the company never manages to get away during the summer"
  • Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run.
    • usage: "If you see this man, run"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up"
  • Issue or leak, as from a small opening.
    • usage: "Gas escaped into the bedroom"

adjective

  • Having escaped, especially from confinement.
    • usage: "a convict still at large"; "searching for two escaped prisoners"; "dogs loose on the streets"; "criminals on the loose in the neighborhood"
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APAWordNet. (2010). escaped. Retrieved September 22, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/escaped/definitions/1173515
ChicagoWordNet. 2010. "escaped" http://smartdefine.org/escaped/definitions/1173515 (accessed September 22, 2026).
HarvardWordNet 2010, escaped, Smart Define, viewed 22 September, 2026, <http://smartdefine.org/escaped/definitions/1173515>.
MLAWordNet. "escaped" 23 October 2010. Web. 22 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/escaped/definitions/1173515>
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