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Synonyms for escape
Synonyms for escape: flight, dodging, flee and leak. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 4 synonyms for escape
Interchangeable with escape, one per sense
Audited under escape's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one escape carries in that sense.
- flightnoun, in the sense "the act of escaping physically"
- dodgingnoun, in the sense "nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name escape as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
Two directions, one standard: two audited under escape and two under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
the act of escaping physically
He made his escape from the mental hospital.
escape in 2 more sentences, same sense
- Two men chased the pickpocket down the alley, but his escape through a gap in the fence saved him.
- In her letter she described the daring escape she and her sister made from the burning building.
How it behaves: In this sense escape is usually paired with a prepositional phrase introduced by "from" naming the place or captor, and often follows a possessive as in "his escape" or the verb "make."
The true synonym
flight
Same sentence, swapped: He made his flight from the mental hospital.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot escape is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- dodging
- outflow
- double
The opposite, in this sense
capture reverses escape as it is used in the sentence above. A different sense of escape takes different opposites, which is why these sit inside the sense and not at the top of the page.
- capture
nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do
That escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive.
The true synonym
dodging
Same sentence, swapped: That dodging from the consequences is possible but unattractive.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- leak
- dereliction
- jump
Where escape turns up in the game
escape is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where escape is the trap
- missverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is drop, in the sense "leave undone or leave out", with escape sitting one tile away.
- runverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is move, in the sense "progress by being changed", and escape is one of the three tiles that lose.
- runverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is work, in the sense "perform as expected when applied", and escape is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play escape
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so escape reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because actions is the company escape keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. escape carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.