escape
US: /ɪˈskeɪp/
UK: /ɛskˈeɪp/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
escape /is'keip/- danh từ
- sự trốn thoát; phương tiện để trốn thoát, con đường thoát, lối thoát
- sự thoát ly thực tế; phương tiện để thoát ly thực tế
- (kỹ thuật) sự thoát (hơi...)
- cây trồng mọc tự nhiên (không do gieo trồng...)
- to have a narrow (hairbreadth) escape
- suýt nữa thì bị tóm, may mà thoát được
- ngoại động từ
- trốn thoát, tránh thoát, thoát khỏi
- to escape death: thoát chết
- to escape punishment: thoát khỏi sự trừng phạt
- vô tình buột ra khỏi, thốt ra khỏi (cửa miệng...) (lời nói...)
- a scream escaped his lips: một tiếng thét buột ra khỏi cửa miệng anh ta, anh ta buột thét lên
- trốn thoát, tránh thoát, thoát khỏi
- nội động từ
- trốn thoát, thoát
- thoát ra (hơi...)
- his name had escaped me
- tôi quên bẵng tên anh ta
Advanced English dictionary
verb, noun+ verb
1 [V] ~ (from sb/sth) to get away from a place where you have been kept as a prisoner or not allowed to leave: Two prisoners have escaped. + He escaped from prison this morning. + They were caught trying to escape.
2 ~ (from sth) to get away from an unpleasant or dangerous situation: [V] She managed to escape from the burning car. + (figurative) As a child he would often escape into a dream world of his own. + [VN] They were glad to have escaped the clutches of winter for another year.
3 [no passive] to avoid sth unpleasant or dangerous: [VN] She was lucky to escape punishment. + The pilot escaped death by seconds. + There was no escaping the fact that he was overweight. + [V -ing] He narrowly escaped being killed.
4 ~ (with sth) to suffer no harm or less harm than you would expect: [V] I was lucky to escape with minor injuries. + [V-ADJ] Both drivers escaped unhurt.
5 [VN] [no passive] to be forgotten or not noticed: Her name escapes me (= I can't remember it). + It might have escaped your notice, but I'm very busy at the moment.
6 [V] (of gases, liquids, etc.) to get out of a container, especially through a hole or crack: Put a lid on to prevent heat escaping. + toxic waste escaping into the sea
7 (of a sound) to come out from your mouth without you intending it to: [VN] A groan escaped her lips. [also V]
+ noun
1 [C, U] ~ (from sth) the act or a method of escaping from a place or an unpleasant or dangerous situation: an escape from a prisoner of war camp + I had a narrow escape (= I was lucky to have escaped). + There was no hope of escape from her disastrous marriage. + He took an elaborate escape route from South Africa to Britain. + As soon as he turned his back, she would make her escape.
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2 [sing., U] a way of forgetting sth unpleasant or difficult for a short time: For her travel was an escape from the boredom of her everyday life.
3 [C] the fact of a liquid, gas, etc. coming out of a pipe or container by accident; the amount that comes out: an escape of gas
Idioms: make good your escape (written) to manage to escape completely: He made good his escape from a crowd of journalists by jumping over a barrier.
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Thesaurus dictionary
v.
1 get away, break out or free, bolt, flee, fly, run away or off, elope, decamp, abscond, steal or slip off or away, take to one's heels, take French leave, disappear, vanish, Brit levant, Colloq take off, clear out, cut and run, duck out, make oneself scarce, do a disappearing act, Brit do a moonlight flit, US vamoose, hightail it, skedaddle, US and Canadian skip (town), fly the coop, cut out; Slang vamoose, Brit do a bunk, bugger off, mizzle off, US and Canadian scram, blow, lam out, take it on the lam, take a (run-out) powder, Chiefly Australian shoot through:
They escaped when I wasn't looking.
2 evade, elude, avoid, dodge:
They escaped detection for years by hiding in a deserted monastery.
3 drain, leak, issue, seep, discharge, emanate:
Steam was escaping through a hole.
4 elude, evade, baffle, stump, mystify, puzzle, be forgotten by, be beyond (someone):
How the thing started escapes me for the moment.
n.
5 flight, getaway, departure, decampment, bolt, jailbreak, prison-break, Colloq break, break-out:
The escape was planned for midnight.
6 distraction, relief, diversion, recreation:
He watches westerns as an escape.
7 leakage, leaking, seepage, seeping, drainage, draining, leak, discharge, outpouring, outflow, effluence, efflux, effluxion:
An escape of radioactive waste from the nuclear power station had been reported earlier.
Collocation
1 getting away from a place
ADJ.
attempted | successful | great
one of the greatest escapes of all time
VERB + ESCAPE
effect, make, make good
He made his escape through the window. I found an open door and made good my escape.
| plan | foil, prevent
ESCAPE + NOUN
attempt, bid | route
PREP.
~ from
his escape from the prison camp
PHRASES
a means/way of escape
She looked round for a means of escape.
| a possibility of escape
There was clearly no possibility of escape.
2 avoiding sth unpleasant or boring
ADJ.
close, narrow, near | lucky, miraculous, remarkable
A driver had a lucky escape after a brick was dropped on his car from an overhead bridge.
VERB + ESCAPE
have
PREP.
~ from
He had a narrow escape from gunfire.
ADV.
narrowly
They narrowly escaped being killed in the fire.
| not entirely
The head of department cannot entirely escape responsibility for this situation.
VERB + ESCAPE
cannot/could not | be impossible to | attempt to, try to | manage to | let sb
It was stupid of Lee to let them escape.
| help sb (to)
PREP.
from
to escape from prison
| into
They escaped into the forest.
| to
The family escaped to England.
| with
Thieves escaped with property worth over £5,000.
PHRASES
escape alive
Only two of the men escaped alive.
| escape sb's clutches
He had managed to escape the clutches of the police yet again.
| escape unharmed/unhurt/uninjured/unscathed, escape with your life
She was very lucky to escape with her life.
Concise dictionary
escapes|escaped|escapingɪ'skeɪpnoun
+the act of escaping physically
+an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy
+the unwanted discharge of a fluid from some container
+a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level
+nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do
+an avoidance of danger or difficulty
+a means or way of escaping
+a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild
verb
+run away from confinement
+fail to experience
+escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action
+be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by
+issue or leak, as from a small opening
+remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion
+flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
