What is the meaning of escaped?

verb

• Run away from confinement.
  • usage: "The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison"
  • synonyms: escape, get away, break loose
• Fail to experience.
  • usage: "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane"
  • synonyms: miss, escape
• 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"
  • synonyms: get off, get away, get by, get out, escape
• Be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by.
  • usage: "What you are seeing in him eludes me"
  • synonyms: elude, escape
• 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"
  • synonyms: escape, get away
• Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run.
  • usage: "If you see this man, run"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up"
  • synonyms: scat, run, scarper, turn tail, lam, run away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills, take to the woods, escape, fly the coop, break away
• Issue or leak, as from a small opening.
  • usage: "Gas escaped into the bedroom"
  • synonyms: escape

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"
  • synonyms: at large, loose, on the loose