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How to sign: run away from confinement
"The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison";
Similiar / Same: get away, break loose
Categories: flee, fly, take flight
Within this category: break, elude, escape, run away, shake, slip
How to sign: flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
"If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up";
Similiar / Same: scarper, turn tail, lam, run away, hightail it, head for the hills, take to the woods, fly the coop, run, bunk, break away
Categories: go away, go forth, leave
Within this category: flee, skedaddle
How to sign: an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy
"romantic novels were her escape from the stress of daily life"; "his alcohol problem was a form of escapism";
Similiar / Same: escapism
Categories: diversion, recreation
How to sign: be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by
"What you are seeing in him eludes me";
Similiar / Same: elude
Categories: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex
Within this category: defy
How to sign: 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";
Similiar / Same: get away
Categories: break loose, escape, get away
