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# escape

«escape» in Mova's school dictionary: **to get away from a place where you are kept, or from danger** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (escape, escapes, escaped, escaping); noun (an escape, escapes)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To escape means to get away from a place where you are kept, or from danger. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/escape/#m1)

2) To escape something means to avoid it: escape the rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/escape/#m2)

3) Gas, water or air escapes when it leaks out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/escape/#m3)

4) An escape is the act of getting away, or a way out: a fire escape. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/escape/#m4)

5) On a computer keyboard, Escape (Esc) is a key that cancels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/escape/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In fire safety lessons families plan an escape route: know two ways out, crawl low under smoke, get out, stay out and call for help; a fire escape is a special staircase or exit. In stories an escape is an exciting moment (escape from the castle). In science gases escape from containers if they are not sealed. Phrases: escape route, fire escape, a narrow escape, escape from, escape the heat, no escape.

### examples

- We practised our fire escape plan at home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/escape/#x1)
- The hamster escaped from its cage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/escape/#x2)
- The prisoners tried to escape over the wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/escape/#x3)
- We had a narrow escape when the branch fell just behind us. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/escape/#x4)
- Gas can escape from a leaking pipe; if you smell it, tell an adult. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/escape/#x5)
- We went to the beach to escape the heat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/escape/#x6)
- Use the fire escape if the stairs are full of smoke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/escape/#x7)
- Press Escape to close the window on the screen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/escape/#x8)
- This time there was no escape. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/escape/#x9)

### note

Regular verb: escaped (drop the «e» for escaping). «Escape from a place», «escape (from) danger». Not «excape». In a fire, escaping comes first: never go back inside for toys or pets.

### In the corpora

- [Caimans and crocodiles bask with their mouths open to let heat escape and cool down; it is not a threat or a yawn.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/42-the-capybara/16/)
- [Duikers are small forest antelopes whose name means diver in Afrikaans, because they plunge into thick bushes to escape.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/159-the-congo-rainforest/17/)
- [In summer the tundra has huge swarms of mosquitoes, so thick that caribou run to windy hills or snow patches to escape them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/168-the-arctic-tundra-musk-oxen-arctic-foxes-and-the-truth-about-lemmings/14/)
- [Raccoons were brought to Europe and some escaped; now they live wild in Germany and are spreading to nearby countries.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/224-raccoons-opossums-and-skunks/9/)
- [Real cats are a big danger to small birds; Tweety always escapes, but real birds often do not.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/228-cartoon-pets-and-animal-myths-put-right/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «escape» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/escape/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.