(v.) To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger.
(v.) To avoid the notice of; to pass unobserved by; to evade; as, the fact escaped our attention.
(v. i.) To flee, and become secure from danger; -- often followed by from or out of.
(v. i.) To get clear from danger or evil of any form; to be passed without harm.
(v. i.) To get free from that which confines or holds; -- used of persons or things; as, to escape from prison, from arrest, or from slavery; gas escapes from the pipes; electricity escapes from its conductors.
(n.) The act of fleeing from danger, of evading harm, or of avoiding notice; deliverance from injury or any evil; flight; as, an escape in battle; a narrow escape; also, the means of escape; as, a fire escape.
(n.) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake; an oversight; also, transgression.
(n.) A sally.
(n.) The unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoner's departure from custody.
(n.) An apophyge.
(n.) Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid.
(n.) Leakage or loss of currents from the conducting wires, caused by defective insulation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cancer of the mouth, pharynx and esophagus has decreased in all Japanese migrants, but the decrease is much greater among Okinawan migrants, suggesting they have escaped exposure to risk factors peculiar to the Okinawan environment.
(2) Like many families, we’ve had to move to escape the fighting.
(3) At follow-up, the initial presence of signs of repression was significantly more common in such initially nonregressive patients as had escaped a later psychotic breakdown.
(4) The proliferation of this cell type may represent an escape from the senescence pathway and progression to immortal tumor cells.
(5) The presence of the positive-off diagonal of the second-order kernel of respiratory control of heart rate is an indication of an escape-like phenomenon in the system.
(6) If you’ve escaped the impact of cuts so far , consider yourself lucky, but don’t think that you won’t be affected after the next tranche hits.
(7) The plan was to provide those survivors with escape routes while also giving law enforcement an entry point.
(8) He said: “Almost daily we hear from parents desperate to escape the single cramped room of a B&B or hostel that they find themselves struggling to raise their children in.
(9) Only two of the 31 commandos escaped; the rest were tracked down and killed.
(10) It is deeply moving hearing him talk now – as if from the grave – about a Christmas Day when he felt so frustrated and cut-off from his family that he had to go into the office to escape.
(11) Since chromatin particles containing DNA the size of 125 kbp can electroelute, we conclude that the polymerizing complex is attached to a nucleoskeleton which is too large to escape.
(12) If such a system were rolled out nationally, central government could escape political pressure to ringfence NHS funding.
(13) New insights into the biochemical and cell-biological alterations occurring in articular cartilage during the early phase of osteoarthrosis (OA) have been gained in the past decade by analysing experimentally induced osteoarthrosis in animals, mostly dogs and rabbits, while early phases of OA in humans so far have escaped diagnostic evaluation.
(14) After 2 weeks of chronic exposure to 75 mM EtOH, crayfish showed behavioral tolerance as measured by a decrease in righting time and an increase in tail-flip escape behavior to control levels.
(15) The researchers' own knowledge of street language and drug behavior has enabled them to capture information that would escape most observers and even some participants.
(16) Animals continued to display escape responses after removal of eyestalks and antennae.
(17) Intracerebral injection of the GABAA agonists muscimol (1 nmol), isoguvacine (1 nmol) or THIP (1, 2 and 4 nmol) in rats with chemitrodes implanted in the dorsal midbrain central grey raised the threshold electrical current for inducing escape behaviour.
(18) Rats were tested on either escape or avoidance learning at 80 days of age after chemical sympathectomy at birth or 40 or 80 days of age.
(19) The fraction of ligands that initially escaped into the solvent decreased when the temperature was lowered, and the Arrhenius plots for the rebinding rate coefficients were found to deviate significantly from linearity.
(20) When Hayley Cropper swallows poison on Coronation Street on Monday night, taking her own life to escape inoperable pancreatic cancer, with her beloved husband, Roy, in pieces at her bedside, it will be the end of a character who, thanks to Hesmondhalgh's performance, has captivated and challenged British TV viewers for 16 years.
Ineluctable
Definition:
(a.) Not to be overcome by struggling; irresistible; inevitable.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is an ineluctable consequence of improving the computer models of climate change.
(2) And in this ineluctable journey, we must wish the "quiet man" godspeed.
(3) Based on a review of 13 personal cases an attempt is made to isolate a specific laryngeal lesion: extensive papilloma durum of larynx of almost ineluctable malignant transformation.
(4) So you have an ineluctable tendency for regulators to regulate more and more, and for banks to get bigger and bigger.
(5) A Rip Van Winkle from 1979 would be astonished that earnings have all but evaporated from British politics, as if pay were as ineluctable as the weather.
(6) We can also make a number of other forecasts based on those, and other ineluctable realities about the cost of components in computing.
(7) It is the author's conclusion that these and other related formulations lead ineluctably to a concept of mental structure that necessarily incorporates elements of both "deficit" and "drive-defense" models and the paper that follows attempts to develop and explicate that conclusion by means of a detailed examination of relevant parts of Fairbairn's writings.
(8) This idea has penetrated deep into the collective consciousness: the idea that poverty is somehow inevitable, ineluctable, a given condition for a significant proportion of humanity.
(9) When you sit at the center of the world and are unlikely to ever lack for the basic materials of self-sufficiency, the idea of blind, gnawing resentment – let alone of feeding that resentment even with irrational aims – is ineluctably beyond your ken.
(10) Replacement of living poliomyelitis vaccine by inactivated one is ineluctable as complications though exceptional will become less and less accepted, and the surveillance of poliovirus circulation will be facilitated.
(11) The rapid rise of the life sciences cannot continue its present course into the twenty-first century without meeting ineluctable limits to expansion.
(12) These changes are perhaps not ineluctably associated with aging; they might result from pathological processes that have gone unnoticed.
(13) The excision necessary for reasons of comfort and hygiene could not be envisaged unless the ineluctable vast palatine breach opened could be immediately repaired by surgery, any prosthetic solution being excluded.
(14) It's a problem that affects at least half-a-dozen European nations and is most obvious in the European Union itself, yet I wonder if this seemingly ineluctable estrangement really has to go all the way in Britain.
(15) Greece, ineluctably, is being drawn into a new dance of uncertainty, a rollercoaster ride of high-pressure politics.
(16) Thus, genetic determinism is no longer ineluctable.
(17) The close and ineluctable links between anatomy and physical anthropology are explored.
(18) The author suggests ways of theorizing, and eventually interpreting, the 'breach' in the relationship in terms of the absent, decentred subject, the Desire of the Other, the inherent contingency of our most primitive identifications, and the ineluctable violence and alienation of human interdependency.
(19) Whatever one's view of Apple as a manufacturer of digital equipment, as an author of operating systems and designer of software, as a multinational corporation, as a lifestyle statement or as a quasi-religious cult, it remains a matter of ineluctable fact that the introduction of the iPhone just over a year ago changed the smartphone market for ever.
(20) Quite how put out you are by that ineluctable truth is a matter of personal taste.