make one's escape

  • 1make one's getaway — escape …

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  • 2escape — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Get away Nouns 1. escape, elopement, flight; evasion (see avoidance); retreat; narrow escape or squeak, hairbreadth escape; deliverance, liberation; redeployment; jailbreak, freedom. Informal, close call …

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  • 3Escape — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Escape >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 escape escape scape Sgm: N 1 avolation| avolation| elopement flight Sgm: N 1 evasion evasion &c.(avoidance) 623 Sgm: N 1 retreat retreat Sgm …

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  • 4Escape from Colditz — is a game devised by successful escaper Pat Reid, based on the former POW camp at Colditz Castle in Germany during World War II.The original game is a board game produced by Parker Brothers.A computer game was also produced, based on the board… …

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  • 5One Eyed Jack (video game) — One Eyed Jack is a fictional pirate who was the main villain in the 1994 video game Alone in the Dark 2 and he also appeared in Jack in the Dark as a jack in the box replica of his true self. One Eyed Jack and his band of bootleggers kidnapped… …

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  • 6escape — v 1. get awry, get free, get out, get clear of, break away, make or effect one s escape, make good one s escape, get away safely, Archaic. scape or scape, Inf. jump, Inf. skip, Inf. make a getaway or clean getaway, Inf. fly the coop; All Sl.… …

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  • 7escape — I n. act of escaping 1) to make, organize an escape; to make good one s escape 2) to foil, thwart an escape 3) a clean; hairbreadth, narrow escape 4) an escape from (an escape from prison) misc. 5) a fire escape ( an emergency staircase ) II v.… …

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  • 8make off — verb run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along The thief made off with our silver the accountant absconded with the cash from the safe • Syn: ↑abscond, ↑bolt, ↑absquatulate, ↑decamp, ↑run off, ↑go off …

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  • 9escape — 1. verb 1) he escaped from prison Syn: run away/off, get out, break out, break free, make a break for it, bolt, flee, take flight, make off, take off, abscond, take to one s heels, make one s getaway, make a run for it; disappear, vanish …

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  • 10escape — I. v. a. 1. Avoid, shun, evade, elude, flee from, get out of the way of. 2. Pass unobserved. II. v. n. 1. Get away, make or effect one s escape, get free, get into safety, get away safely, get off or through without harm. 2. Flee, fly, abscond,… …

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