Tra từ escape - Từ điển tiếng Anh - Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary

escape UK US [ɪˈskeɪp] verb [ escapes escaping escaped ]

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1. <E > intransitive or transitive to get free from something, or to avoid something
• Two prisoners have escaped.
• A lion has escaped from its cage.
• She was lucky to escape serious injury.
• He narrowly (= only just) escaped a fine.
• His name escapes me (= I have forgotten his name).
• Nothing important escapes her notice/attention.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Running away and escaping

• In order to escape capture, he fled to the mountains.
• He had to jump out of an upstairs window to escape.
• Refugees have been pouring into neighbouring countries to escape the civil war.
• Both children escaped unharmed from the burning building.
• In the end she left home just to escape the tyrannical rule of her mother.

COMPUTER

2. intransitive specialized to press the key on a computer keyboard which allows you to leave a particular screen and return to the previous one or to interrupt a process
• Escape from this window and return to the main menu.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Operating computers
Idiom: There's no escaping the fact

noun

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1. <E > countable or uncountable when someone succeeds in getting out of a place or a dangerous or bad situation
• He made his escape on the back of a motorbike.
• an escape route
• They had a narrow escape (= only just avoided injury or death) when their car crashed.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Running away and escaping
2. countable a loss that happens by accident
• an escape of radioactivity
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Losing and loss ↑Winning and losing

Collocations:
Verbs
have a [lucky/miraculous/narrow, etc] escape
• They had a miraculous escape when their car plunged down a ravine.
make your escape
• My hosts were deep in conversation when I made my escape.
attempt plan an escape
• The prisoners spent every evening planning their escape.
be an escape (for sb)
• For me, music is an escape from everyday life.
Nouns
an escape hatch route tunnel
• We got out through the escape hatch.
an escape clause
• There was an escape clause in the contract in case either party changed their mind.
an escape attempt
• There were dozens of escape attempts that year.
means of escape
• They used the ladder as their means of escape.
Adjectives
an amazing attempted miraculous remarkable escape
• We had an amazing escape when fire engulfed the building.
a great heroic escape
• They made a heroic escape from the prison.
a lucky narrow escape
• We were nearly caught in the downpour, but we had a narrow escape.
Prepositions
escape from sb/sth
• I needed to escape from my family.
escape to [a place]
• We escaped to a remote beach for the day.

• We've got all the exits covered, so they've no chance of escape.
• It was a daring escape.
• He told the extraordinary story of his escape.
• She gave a hair-raising account of her escape through the desert.
• It sounds as if you had a lucky escape.

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3. only singular something that helps you to forget about your usual life or problems
• Romantic novels provide an escape from reality.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Creating a distraction

Collocations:
Verbs
have a [lucky/miraculous/narrow, etc] escape
• They had a miraculous escape when their car plunged down a ravine.
make your escape
• My hosts were deep in conversation when I made my escape.
attempt plan an escape
• The prisoners spent every evening planning their escape.
be an escape (for sb)
• For me, music is an escape from everyday life.
Nouns
an escape hatch route tunnel
• We got out through the escape hatch.
an escape clause
• There was an escape clause in the contract in case either party changed their mind.
an escape attempt
• There were dozens of escape attempts that year.
means of escape
• They used the ladder as their means of escape.
Adjectives
an amazing attempted miraculous remarkable escape
• We had an amazing escape when fire engulfed the building.
a great heroic escape
• They made a heroic escape from the prison.
a lucky narrow escape
• We were nearly caught in the downpour, but we had a narrow escape.
Prepositions
escape from sb/sth
• I needed to escape from my family.
escape to [a place]
• We escaped to a remote beach for the day.

COMPUTER

4. uncountable ( also escape key , written abbreviation Esc ) specialized the key on a computer keyboard which allows you to leave a particular screen and return to the previous one or to interrupt a process
• Press Esc to return to the main menu.
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Thesaurus⁺: ↑Operating computers