What does escape from mean?

Definitions for escape from
es·cape from

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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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Numerology

  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. David Ewoldsen:

    It's not an escape from our everyday stresses, we have a tendency, when watching TV or film, to put ourselves in it.

  2. Rida Issa:

    Brigades of Bonyan Marsous intercepted a group of Islamic State militants on Friday attempting to escape from the coastal side of the city, the clashes were massive and have resulted in four troops killed and 24 wounded. After the clashes ended, our forces found about 10 bodies of militants.

  3. Public Information Peter Thorne:

    No escape from our facilities is ever acceptable and we are taking every step to locate and return this individual to custody, a thorough investigation into how this occurred is underway to ensure that this does not happen again, and disciplinary action, if warranted, will be taken at the conclusion of the investigation.

  4. Matteo Renzi:

    We need to escape from our 'do gooder' mentality.

  5. Agnieszka Sieradzka:

    Some would be surprised that art existed in a place like that, in a place with crematories, but art was especially needed here behind the barbed wire, because the art could save a part of their human dignity, the art was a hope for a better future. The art was escape from the brutal reality of the camp to another, better world.


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