Definition of Escaped
Adjective: escaped i'skeypt
- Having escaped, especially from confinement
"searching for two escaped prisoners";
- at large, loose, on the loose
- Run away from confinement
"The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison";
- get away, break loose
- Fail to experience
"Fortunately, I escaped the hurricane";
- miss
- Escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action
"She escapes with murder!";
- get off, get away, get by, get out
- Be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by
"What you are seeing in him escapes me";
- elude
- Remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion
"We escaped to our summer house for a few days";
- get away
- Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
"The burglars escaped before the police showed up";
- scat, run, scarper, turn tail, lam [N. Amer], run away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills, take to the woods, fly the coop, break away, leg it [Brit]
- Issue or leak, as from a small opening
"Gas escaped into the bedroom"
- (computing) change characters that normally have a special meaning so that they appear as literal characters rather than having their meaning applied, e.g. by prefixing the character with a special 'escape' character
"often quotation marks are escaped by prefixing with a backslash"
Anagrams containing the word escaped