What does escape from mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. shake, shake off, throw off, escape fromverb

    get rid of

    "I couldn't shake the car that was following me"

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  1. escape from

    Escape from refers to the act of successfully getting away or breaking free from a confinement, danger, undesirable situation or place. It usually involves liberating oneself from restriction or control, finding a way out, or eluding capture or harm. This can be contextually related to various scenarios such as escape from prison, escape from reality, or escape from a dangerous threat.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of escape from in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of escape from in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of escape from in a Sentence

  1. Jeramey Anderson:

    I just kind of like doing it, it's an escape from my norm, I guess.

  2. Judge Kevin Ryan:

    They traversed very inhospitable territory, never knowing if the next step they took in deeply wooded areas would be their last, at any time you could have stopped the escape from happening.

  3. Epictetus:

    Tell me where I can escape death: discover for me the country, show me the men to whom I must go, whom death does not visit. Discover to me a charm against death. If I have not one, what do you wish me to do? I cannot escape from death, but shall I die lamenting and trembling? . . . Therefore if I am able to change externals according to my wish, I change them: but if I cannot, I am ready to tear the eyes out of him who hinders me.

  4. Jiddu Krishnamurti:

    What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

  5. Clare Boothe Luce:

    A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.


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