ESCAPE (2)

escape (2). Escape, n. a getting clear, flight, oversight, error

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Es‐cape″, v. i. 1. 1. To flee, and become secure from danger; — often followed by from or out of.
Haste, for thy life escape, nor look behind�� Keble. 2. 2. To get clear from danger or evil of any form; to be passed without harm.
Such heretics . . . would have been thought fortunate, if they escaped with life. Macaulay. 3. 3. To get free from that which confines or holds; — used of persons or things; as, to escape from prison, from arrest, or from slavery; gas escapes from the pipes; electricity escapes from its conductors.
To escape out of these meshes. Thackeray.