take it on the lam
bolt
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squeak through
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umbeschew
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go south
outskip
miss
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rabbit
run for the hills
nonescape
break
give someone the slip
outflee
Houdini
escapee
bust a move
do the dash
fleet
break out
take flight
evade
get out
scarper
flight
escape
show a clean pair of heels
make a run for it
vamoose
cut and run
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bust out
bilk
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break loose
escaping
sticky
save one's skin
evaporate
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get out of
leg it
fly the coop
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jailbreak
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exfiltrate
fly off
abscond
unstraddle
walk off
run off
trap
run away
dodge
surface
extrorsal
fleecily
breakout
deass
cut-and-run
get away with
corner
do a bunk
box
shemozzle
spring out
on the run
aflight
thieve out
firk
break away
take to one's heels
run for one's life
outway
runner
escapable
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nonescape
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flight
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lam
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cut-and-run
corner
box
outway
runner
reescape
take it on the lam
bolt
flee
squeak through
squeak by
umbeschew
go south
outskip
miss
astart
reescape
get away
beat feet
run for it
rabbit
run for the hills
give someone the slip
outflee
Houdini
bust a move
do the dash
fleet
break out
take flight
evade
get out
scarper
show a clean pair of heels
make a run for it
vamoose
cut and run
make a break for it
bust out
bilk
elude
come off
break loose
save one's skin
evaporate
get out of
leg it
fly the coop
jailbreak
exfiltrate
fly off
abscond
unstraddle
walk off
run off
trap
run away
dodge
surface
deass
get away with
do a bunk
shemozzle
spring out
thieve out
break
firk
break away
take to one's heels
run for one's life
verb
verb
- To escape.
- To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly.
- To produce flower stalks and flowers or seeds quickly or prematurely; to form a bolt (stalk or scape); to go to seed.
- To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
- To sift, especially through a cloth.
- To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).
- To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.
- To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
- To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
- To secure a door by locking or barring it.
- To swallow food without chewing it.
- To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
- To drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink.
- To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected; to break away from a party.
- To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
adv
noun
- A small personal-armour-piercing missile for short-range use, or (in common usage though deprecated by experts) a short arrow, intended to be shot from a crossbow or a catapult.
- The standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: 39 yards.
- A sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.
- A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.
- A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
- A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one end. It can be inserted into an unthreaded hole up to the head, with a nut then threaded on the other end; a heavy machine screw.
- A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected; a breaking away from one's party.
- A stalk or scape (of garlic, onion, etc).
- A burst of speed or efficiency.
- A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides of a double door, to prevent the door(s) from being forced open.
- A lightning spark, i.e., a lightning bolt.
- An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
- A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.
- A sudden event, action or emotion.
- A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.
- A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside.
verb
verb
- To avoid; to escape.
- To be wanting; to lack something that should be present.
- To fail to notice; to have a shortcoming of perception; overlook.
- To fail to attend.
- To be late for something (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).
- To fail to score (a goal).
- To spare someone of something unwanted or undesirable.
- To become aware of the loss or absence of; to feel the want or need of, sometimes with regret.
- To fail to help the hand of a player.
- To fail to achieve or attain.
- To fail to understand;
- To fail to hit.
noun
- A failure to obtain or accomplish.
- The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.
- A failure to hit.
- A title of respect for a young woman (usually unmarried) with or without a name used.
- In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.
- An unmarried woman; a girl.
- An act of avoidance (usually used with the verb give)
- A kept woman; a mistress.
noun
- An escape or means of escape.
- The contrivance in a timepiece (winding wristwatch) which connects the train of wheel work with the pendulum or balance, giving to the latter the impulse by which it is kept in vibration.
- The number of fish that escape commercial fishing operations and travel upstream to spawn.
- A mechanism found in devices such as a typewriter or printer which controls lateral motion of the carriage.
verb
- To flee.
- Confound; damn; drat.
- To talk incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble annoyingly.
- To hunt rabbits.
noun
- A runner in a distance race whose goal is mainly to set the pace, either to tire a specific rival so that a teammate can win or to help another break a record; a pacesetter.
- A mammal of the family Leporidae, with long ears, long hind legs and a short, fluffy tail.
- A pneumatically-controlled tool used to insert small samples of material inside the core of a nuclear reactor.
- A large element at the beginning of a list of items to be bubble sorted, and thus tending to be quickly swapped into its correct position. Compare turtle.
- A very poor batsman; selected as a bowler or wicket-keeper.
- The meat from this animal.
- The fur of a rabbit typically used to imitate another animal's fur.
- Rarebit; Welsh rabbit or a similar dish: melted cheese served atop toast.
verb
noun
- An act of escaping.
- The transition area between a singer's vocal registers; the passaggio.
- A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
- An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast, or sports game.
- A place where waves break (that is, where waves pitch or spill forward creating white water).
- A sharp bit or snaffle.
- The number of points scored by one player in one visit to the table.
- An area along a river that features steep banks, bluffs, or gorges (e.g., Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, US).
- A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as rhythmic dance music.
- A temporary split with a romantic partner.
- The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is, to move from its lower to its upper register.
- A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
- A keystroke or other signal that causes a program to terminate or suspend execution.
- A scheduled interval of days or weeks between periods of school instruction; a holiday.
- A rest or pause, usually from work.
- The counter-attack.
- A short holiday.
- An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
- A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
- A sudden fall in prices on the stock exchange.
- The beginning (of the morning).
- A game won by the receiving player(s).
- The first shot in a game of billiards.
- The curve imparted to the ball's motion on the green due to slope or grass texture.
- A time for students to talk or play between lessons.
- The separation between lines, paragraphs or pages of a written text.
- The start of a horse race.
- A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
verb
- To go down, in terms of temperature, indicating that the most dangerous part of the illness has passed.
- To become deeper at puberty.
- To terminate the execution of a program before normal completion.
- To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
- To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily; to go on break.
- To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change gait.
- To demote; to reduce the military rank of.
- To counter-attack.
- To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
- To open (a safe) without using the correct key, combination, or the like.
- To become audible suddenly.
- To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
- To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
- To turn an animal into a beast of burden.
- Of prices on the stock exchange: to fall suddenly.
- To cause the shell of (an egg) to crack, so that the inside (yolk) is accessible.
- To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
- To ruin financially.
- To disclose or make known an item of news, a band, etc.
- To change a steady state abruptly.
- To surpass or do better than (a specific number); to do better than (a record), setting a new record.
- To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
- To end the run of (a play).
- To render (a game) unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses in them in a way that gives a player an unfair advantage.
- To cause (some feature of a program or piece of software) to stop functioning properly; to cause a regression.
- To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
- To (attempt to) disengage and flee to; to make a run for.
- To begin or end.
- To suddenly become.
- To win a game (against one's opponent) as receiver.
- To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
- To demulsify.
- To end (a connection); to disconnect.
- To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
- To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
- To arrive.
- To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
- To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately) hit something else beneath.
- To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly.
- To crack or fracture (bone) under a physical strain.
- To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
- To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.
- To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
- To end.
- To remove one of the two men on (a point).
- To suspend the execution of a program during debugging so that the state of the program can be investigated.
- To violate; to fail to adhere to.
- To cause, or allow the occurrence of, a line break.
- To B-boy; to breakdance.
noun
verb
- To flee, to escape, to speed away.
- To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of.
- To cause to slip down the barrel of a capstan or windlass, as a rope or chain.
- To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy.
- To move up a rope, so as to haul to more advantage; especially to draw apart the blocks of a tackle.
- To move or change in position.
- To take the cream from; to skim.
- To evanesce, disappear, die out.
noun
- A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
- Any command of vessels exceeding a squadron in size, or a rear admiral's command, composed of five sail-of-the-line, with any number of smaller vessels.
- An arm of the sea; a run of water, such as an inlet or a creek.
- A location, as on a navigable river, where barges are secured.
- A large, coordinated group of people.
- Any group of associated items.
- A group of vessels or vehicles.
adj
verb
- To escape, especially forcefully or defiantly. Notionally, to escape by breaking.
- To bring out from storage, use, or present.
- To rescue someone or aid their escape as in sense 1
- To take or force out by breaking.
- Of a record: to achieve success.
- To separate from a bundle.
- To suddenly get pimples or a rash, especially on one's face.
- To begin suddenly; to emerge in a certain condition.
verb
- To leave or escape.
- To come out of a situation; to escape a fate.
- To become known.
- To leave a vehicle such as a car. (Note: for public transport, get off is more common.)
- To help (someone) leave.
- To spend free time out of the house.
- To say with difficulty.
- To remove or eliminate (dirt or stains).
- To publish or make available; to disseminate.
- To take (something) from its container or storage place, so as to use or display it.
- To be released, especially from hospital or prison.
- To remove one's money from an investment; to end an investment.
intj
noun
- the act of escaping physically
- a formation of aircraft in flight
- an instance of traveling by air
- a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next
- an air force unit smaller than a squadron
- passing above and beyond ordinary bounds
- the path followed by an object moving through space
- a flock of flying birds
- a scheduled trip by plane between designated airports
verb
noun
- the act of escaping physically
- a means or way of escaping
- an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy
- nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do
- an avoidance of danger or difficulty
- a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild
- the discharge of a fluid from some container
- a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level
verb
- run away from confinement
- fail to experience
- escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action
- be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by
- remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion
- flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
- issue or leak, as from a small opening
adj
- Potentially difficult to escape from.
- Tending to stay the same; resistant to change.
- Of weather, hot and windless and with high humidity, so that people feel sticky from sweating.
- Resembling or characteristic of a stick.
- Able or likely to adhere via the drying of a viscous substance.
- Persistent.
- Appearing on all virtual desktops.
- Fixed at the top of the list of topics or threads so as to keep it in view.
- Compelling enough to keep visitors from leaving.
verb
noun
noun
verb
- To escape from prison.
- To modify the firmware of an electronic device, especially a mobile phone, in order to remove restrictions that prevent it from running unofficial software.
- To free an artificial intelligence from its ethical restrictions using prompt injection.
noun
- A prompt to an artificial intelligence which frees it from its ethical restrictions.
- An escape from prison.
- A modification to the firmware of an electronic device (typically a mobile phone or tablet) to allow the installation and use of software not officially supported by the device's manufacturer.
verb
- To leave suddenly, to flee.
- To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
- To dress with ornaments; to adorn (especially said of horses).
- To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.
- To successfully land an aircraft on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.
- To provide with a trap.
- To sell illegal drugs, especially in a public area.
- Of a 'trap': to trick a (heterosexual) man into having sex, by appearing to be a woman.
- To physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap.
- to trap foxes
- To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game.
noun
- A person's mouth.
- An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.
- A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.
- A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball.
- A genre of hip-hop music, with half-time drums and heavy sub-bass.
- The money earned by a prostitute for a pimp.
- A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-granitic igneous rock; trap rock.
- A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for lack of an outlet.
- The trapezius muscle.
- A bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents the escape of noxious gases, but permits the flow of liquids.
- Trapshooting.
- A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.
- A geological structure that creates a petroleum reservoir.
- A successful landing on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.
- Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.
- Belongings.
- The game of trapball itself.
- A cubicle (in a public toilet).
- A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner where drugs are manufactured, packaged, or sold.
- A fictional character from anime, or related media, who is coded as or has qualities typically associated with a gender other than the character's ostensible gender; otokonoko, josou.
- A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body.
- A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.
- An area, especially of a city, with a low level of opportunity and a high level of poverty and crime; a ghetto; a hood.
- A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.
- Someone who is anatomically male but who passes as female.
verb
- To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.
- To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
- To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker (compare burn).
- To avoid; to sidestep.
noun
- An act of dodging.
- A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.)
- A line of work.
adj
adj
adv
noun
- An escape from any restrictive or confining situation.
- An outbreak (sudden eruption of disease etc.).
- The point at which visibility returns after passing through clouds.
- A breakdown of statistics; a detailed view of component parts.
- A room in a hotel etc. that can be taken by a smaller group at a large conference.
- An escape from prison.
adj
noun
- a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible
- a place off to the side of an area
- the point where two lines meet or intersect
- an interior angle formed by two meeting walls
- the intersection of two streets
- the point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect
- a small concavity
- a temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade
- a projecting part where two sides or edges meet
- a remote area
- (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone
verb
noun
- a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible
- a (usually rectangular) container; may have a lid
- private area in a theater or grandstand where a small group can watch the performance
- the quantity contained in a box
- a rectangular drawing
- evergreen shrubs or small trees
- any one of several designated areas on a ball field where the batter or catcher or coaches are positioned
- the driver's seat on a coach
- separate partitioned area in a public place for a few people
- a blow with the hand (usually on the ear)
verb
noun
- A quick escape away from a scene.
- Somebody who controls or manages (e.g. a system).
- A player who runs for a batsman who is too injured to run; he is dressed exactly as the injured batsman, and carries a bat.
- Anyone sent on an errand or with communications, especially for a bank (or, historically, a foot soldier responsible for carrying messages during war).
- A short sling with a carabiner on either end, used to link the climbing rope to a bolt or other protection such as a nut or friend.
- An automobile; a working or driveable automobile.
- A competitor in a poker tournament.
- A person or vessel who runs blockades or engages in smuggling. (Especially used in combination, e.g. gunrunner).
- Part of a shoe that is stitched to the bottom of the upper so it can be glued to the sole.
- A speedrunner.
- A long, narrow carpet for a high traffic area such as a hall or stairs.
- An employee of a sports agent who tries to recruit possible player clients for the agent.
- A type of soft-soled shoe originally intended for runners.
- A rope to increase the power of a tackle.
- A person who moves, on foot, at a fast pace, especially an athlete.
- Any entrant, person or animal (especially a horse), for a race or any competition; a candidate for an election.
- An idea or plan that has potential to be adopted or put into operation.
- A part of a cigarette that is burning unevenly.
- A baserunner.
- One who runs away; a deserter or escapee.
- The blade of an ice skate.
- The channel or strip on which a drawer is opened and closed.
- Part of a mechanism which allows something to be pulled out for maintenance.
- The curved base of a rocking chair.
- In saddlery, a loop of metal through which a rein is passed.
- In molding, a channel cut in a mold.
- The rotating-stone of a grinding-mill.
- The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.
- A tool in which lenses are fastened for polishing.
- A long stolon sent out by a plant (such as strawberry), in order to root new plantlets, or a plant that propagates by using such runners.
- A running gag
- A part of an apparatus that moves quickly.
- A smooth strip on which a sledge runs.
- A leaping food fish (Elagatis pinnulatis) of Florida and the West Indies; the skipjack, shoemaker, or yellowtail.
- A restaurant employee responsible for taking food from the kitchens to the tables.
- A person hired by a gambling establishment to locate potential customers and bring them in.
- A person (from one or the other team) who runs out onto the field during the game to take verbal instructions from the coach to the players. A runner mustn't interfere with play, and may have to wear an identifying shirt to make clear his or her purpose on the field.
- A strip of fabric used to decorate or protect a table or dressing table.
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