Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class V. Words Releasing to the Voluntary Powers
Division (I) Individual Volition
Section II. Prospective Volition
3. Contingent Subservience

671. Escape.

   NOUN:ESCAPE, scape [obs.]; avolation [obs.], elopement, flight; evasion (avoidance) [See Avoidance]; retreat; narrow -, hairbreadth- escape; close call [colloq.], close shave, near shave [colloq.]; come off, impunity.
  [MEANS OF ESCAPE] loophole (opening) [See Opening]; path [See Method]; secret -chamber, – passage; refuge [See Refuge]; vent, – peg; safety valve; drawbridge, fire escape.
  reprieve (deliverance) [See Deliverance]; liberation [See Liberation].
  REFUGEE (fugitive) [See Avoidance].
   VERB:ESCAPE, scape [archaic]; make -, effect -, make good- one’s escape; break jail; get off, get clear off, get well out of; échapper belle [F.], save one’s bacon [colloq.], make a get-away [slang]; weather the storm (safe) [See Safety]; escape scot-free.
  ELUDE &c., make off (avoid) [See Avoidance]; march off (go away) [See Departure]; give one the slip; slip through the -hands, – fingers; slip the collar, wriggle out of; break loose, break from prison; break – slip -, get- away; find vent, find a hole to creep out of.
   ADJECTIVE:escaping, escaped &c. v.; stolen away, fled; scot-free.
   QUOTATIONS:

1. The bird has flown.
2. I am escaped with the skin of my teeth.—Bible