Escape: alternatives and connections

The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality.

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To bewilder; to stupefy; to bring into a maze.

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To empty.

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The act of annulling; annulment.

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To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.

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of Beat

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To lead into perplexity or confusion, as for want of a plain path; to perplex with mazes; or in general, to perplex or confuse greatly.

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The quality or state of being careless; heedlessness; negligenece; inattention.

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To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

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The act of turning aside from any course, occupation, or object; as, the diversion of a stream from its channel; diversion of the mind from business.

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of Dodge

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The act of going out or leaving, or the power to leave; departure.

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To rise out of a fluid; to come forth from that in which anything has been plunged, enveloped, or concealed; to issue and appear; as, to emerge from…

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To run away, as from danger or evil; to avoid in an alarmed or cowardly manner; to hasten off; -- usually with from. This is sometimes omitted, makin…

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The goddess of flowers and spring.

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To bewilder or confuse someone

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To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird.

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Jet, the mineral.

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Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand.

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The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air fr…

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To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out.

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To involve in mystery; to make obscure or difficult to understand; as, to mystify a passage of Scripture.

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Not to attend to with due care or attention; to forbear one's duty in regard to; to suffer to pass unimproved, unheeded, undone, etc.; to omit; to di…

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The quality or state of being negligent; lack of due diligence or care; omission of duty; habitual neglect; heedlessness.

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Neglect or failure to perform.

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A state or condition which daffles reason or confounds judgment; insuperable difficalty; inability to proceed or decide; puzzle; quandary.

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To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts.

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A vegetable; an organized living being, generally without feeling and voluntary motion, and having, when complete, a root, stem, and leaves, though c…

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Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.

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Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill…

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The act of recreating, or the state of being recreated; refreshment of the strength and spirits after toil; amusement; diversion; sport; pastime.

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One who, or that which, regulates.

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of Run

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of Shun

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A small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting, from a tree or shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber.

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To make stupid; to make dull; to blunt the faculty of perception or understanding in; to deprive of sensibility; to make torpid.

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A door; especially, one of a pair of folding doors, or one of the leaves of such a door.

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To to/s back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.

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Away.

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To frustrate or disappoint; to deceive or defraud, by nonfulfillment of engagement; to leave in the lurch; to give the slip to; as, to bilk a credito…

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To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce.

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To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; as, to elude an…

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To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pur…

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To run away, as from danger or evil; to avoid in an alarmed or cowardly manner; to hasten off; -- usually with from. This is sometimes omitted, makin…

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To move in or pass thorugh the air with wings, as a bird.

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To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.

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To stand against; to withstand; to obstruct.

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obs. p. p. of Shake.

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To betake one's self to flight, as if in a panic; to flee; to run away.

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To move along the surface of a thing without bounding, rolling, or stepping; to slide; to glide.

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To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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The act of prevailing over another by arts, address, or fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion.

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The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.

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He (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit Macbeth.

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A going out; particularly (the Exodus), the going out or journey of the Israelites from Egypt under the conduct of Moses; and hence, any large migrat…

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The flight of Mohammed from Mecca, September 13, A. D. 622 (subsequently established as the first year of the Moslem era); hence, any flight or exodu…

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See Hegira.

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The act of passing or flowing out; a moving out from any inclosed place; egress; as, the issue of water from a pipe, of blood from a wound, of air fr…

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To beat soundly; to thrash.

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of Malinger

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The place or opening by which anything is let out; a passage out; an exit; a vent.

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of Shirk

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To betake one's self to flight, as if in a panic; to flee; to run away.

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of Skulk

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of Slacken

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The act of serving as a soldier; the state of being a soldier; the occupation of a soldier.

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One who dreams.

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One who dreams.

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A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.

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A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.

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A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.

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of Dodge

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To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; as, to elude an…

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The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.

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The act or flying; a passing through the air by the help of wings; volitation; mode or style of flying.

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To beat soundly; to thrash.

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A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape; as, a leak in a roof; a leak in a boat; a leak in a gas pipe.

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A leaking; also, the quantity that enters or issues by leaking.

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A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.

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A flowing out; efflux.

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of Run

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Go away; begone; away; -- chiefly used in driving off a cat.

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