Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to escape
Participle: escaped
Gerund: escaping
Indicative
Present
| I | escape |
| you | escape |
| he;she;it | escapes |
| we | escape |
| you | escape |
| they | escape |
Perfect
| I | have escaped |
| you | have escaped |
| he;she;it | has escaped |
| we | have escaped |
| you | have escaped |
| they | have escaped |
Past
| I | escaped |
| you | escaped |
| he;she;it | escaped |
| we | escaped |
| you | escaped |
| they | escaped |
Pluperfect
| I | had escaped |
| you | had escaped |
| he;she;it | had escaped |
| we | had escaped |
| you | had escaped |
| they | had escaped |
Future
| I | will escape |
| you | will escape |
| he;she;it | will escape |
| we | will escape |
| you | will escape |
| they | will escape |
Future Perfect
| I | will have escaped |
| you | will have escaped |
| he;she;it | will have escaped |
| we | will have escaped |
| you | will have escaped |
| they | will have escaped |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | escape |
| you | escape |
| he;she;it | escape |
| we | escape |
| you | escape |
| they | escape |
Perfect
| I | have escaped |
| you | have escaped |
| he;she;it | have escaped |
| we | have escaped |
| you | have escaped |
| they | have escaped |
Imperfect
| I | escaped |
| you | escaped |
| he;she;it | escaped |
| we | escaped |
| you | escaped |
| they | escaped |
Pluperfect
| I | had escaped |
| you | had escaped |
| he;she;it | had escaped |
| we | had escaped |
| you | had escaped |
| they | had escaped |
Conditional
Present
| I | would escape |
| you | would escape |
| he;she;it | would escape |
| we | would escape |
| you | would escape |
| they | would escape |
Perfect
| I | would have escaped |
| you | would have escaped |
| he;she;it | would have escaped |
| we | would have escaped |
| you | would have escaped |
| they | would have escaped |
Imperative
| you | escape |
| we | Let's escape |
| you | escape |
Verbs conjugated like 'escape'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'escape'
scape,
atscape,
bescare,
bescrape,
beshape,
cape,
descale,
descope,
encage,
encase,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to keep away from
- abjure, avert, avoid, dodge, duck, elude, eschew, evade, evitate, get away from, mithe, shun, shy away from, sidestep, skirt, steer clear, waive
- flee
- abscond, break, decamp, fly
- avoid
- elude, evade, shun
Antonyms
- avoid
- face, meet, confront, encounter
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English escapen, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French escaper ( = Old French eschaper, modern French échapper), from Vulgar Latin *excappāre (“to escape a garment, get out of one's clothing”, literally “to free oneself from one's cape”), from Latin ex- (“out”) + Late Latin cappa (“cape, cloak”). Cognate with escapade. Also doublet of scape.
Verbs referencing "escape"
Ido eskapar, Swedish
sjappa, Cornish
skapya.
Sample Sentences
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She had often been, with her mistress, to visit some connections, in the little village of T — —, not far from the Ohio river, and knew the road well. To go thither, to escape across the Ohio river, were the first hurried outlines of her plan of escape; beyond that, she could only hope in God.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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The woman looked up at Mrs. Bird, with a keen, scrutinizing glance, and it did not escape her that she was dressed in deep mourning.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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What a situation, now, for a patriotic senator, that had been all the week before spurring up the legislature of his native state to pass more stringent resolutions against escaping fugitives, their harborers and abettors !
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] A slightly inaccurate quotation from _Hamlet_, Act III, scene I, lines 369-370. ~~~ A missionary figure among the fugitives in Canada told us that many of the fugitives confessed themselves to have escaped from comparatively kind masters, and that they were induced to brave the perils of escape, in almost every case, by the desperate horror with which they regarded being sold south,—a doom which was [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] and that, if things went on in this way, he should not make a cent on the trip. In short, he seemed to consider himself an ill-used man, decidedly; but there was no help for it, as the woman had escaped into a state which _never will_ give up a fugitive,—not even at the demand of the whole glorious Union. The trader, therefore, sat discontentedly down, with his little account-book, and put down the [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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But before I leave Niagara, I must advert to one disgusting circumstance which can hardly have escaped the observation of any decent traveller who has visited the Falls.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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The involuntary look of horror, fright and aversion, with which the girl regarded him, did not escape his eye. He frowned fiercely.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] to be expected, fell upon the defenceless head of Tom. When he hurriedly announced the tidings among his hands, there was a sudden light in Tom's eye, a sudden upraising of his hands, that did not escape him. He saw that he did not join the muster of the pursuers. He thought of forcing him to do it; but, having had, of old, experience of his inflexibility when commanded to take part in any deed of [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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George was heartily disposed to sympathize with any one who had escaped from Legree's plantation,—a place that he could not remember or speak of with patience,—and, with the courageous disregard of consequences which is characteristic of his age and state, he assured [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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“ O, certainly,—George Harris,—I know him well; he married a servant of my mother 's, but has escaped, now, to Canada. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[boiling] [ Nobu ] After Alaska, I came to Los Angeles like a runaway, like I escaped from Japan.
(Nobu)
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Our natural business lies in escaping. If I can take this oath, I will.
(A Man for All Seasons)
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Don't think I will get involved in this. I barely escaped from this murder case by a whisker.
(Nunakuzhi)
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I will also be here with you ' What do I gain escaping all by myself ? '
(Magudam)