- at large, at liberty, escaped, loose, on the loose - 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"
Antonym: unfree (indirect, via free)
- escape, get away, break loose - run away from confinement; "The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison"
--1 is one way to flee, fly, take flight
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun escape7, noun escape1, noun escapee1
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
- miss, escape - fail to experience; "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane"
--2 is one way to avoid
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun escape6, noun escape5
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- get off, get away, get by, get out, escape - escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action; "She gets away with murder!"; "I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities"
--3 is one way to avoid
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun escape5
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
- elude, escape - be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by; "What you are seeing in him eludes me"
--4 is one way to perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound
Sample sentence:
The performance is likely to escape Sue
- escape - issue or leak, as from a small opening; "Gas escaped into the bedroom"
--5 is one way to issue, emerge, come out, come forth, go forth, egress
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun escape3
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
- escape, get away - 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"
--6 is one way to escape, get away, break loose
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun escapist1, noun escape5
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
- run, scarper, turn tail, lam, run away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills, take to the woods, escape, fly the coop, break away - flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up"
--7 is one way to leave, go forth, go away
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP