escaped

Meanings

• run away from confinement
  • "The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison"
• 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
  • "We escaped to our summer house for a few days"
• flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
  • "The burglars escaped before the police showed up"
• issue or leak, as from a small opening
  • "Gas escaped into the bedroom"
• having escaped, especially from confinement
  • "searching for two escaped prisoners"

Synonyms

at large, break away, break loose, bunk, elude, escape, fly the coop, get away, get by, get off, get out, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, loose, miss, on the loose, run, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail