Definition of Escape from

1. Verb. Get rid of. "I couldn't shake the car that was following me"

Exact synonyms: Shake, Shake Off, Throw Off
Generic synonyms: Break Loose, Escape, Get Away

Lexicographical Neighbors of Escape From

escapade
escapades
escapado
escape
escape-capture bigeminy
escape artist
escape artists
escape beat
escape character
escape characters
escape clause
escape cock
escape conditioning
escape contraction
escape expert
escape from (current term)
escape hatch
escape impulse
escape interval
escape literature
escape mechanism
escape phenomenon
escape pod
escape pods
escape reaction
escape rhythm
escape sequence
escape sequences
escape tone
escape tones

Literary usage of Escape from

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass (1855)
"MY escape from SLAVERY. CLOSING INCIDENTS OF MY " LIFE AS A ... my intention to withhold a part of the facts connected with my escape from slavery. ..."

2. The Confessions of S. Augustine: Book I-X. by Augustine (1886)
"Of the vanity of them that would escape from Cod, seeing He is everywhere present. LET the restless and the unrighteous depart and flee from Thee; ..."

3. Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum (1900)
"CHAPTER VI Departur. from Rio de Janeiro—Tho Spray ashore on the sands of Uruguay—A narrow escape from shipwreck—The boy who found a sloop—The Spray floated ..."

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