“escapeth” is a form of
escape
/ɪˈskeɪp/ verb, noun
Forms escapes escaping escaped
- verb (intransitive) To get free; to free oneself. “The prisoners escaped by jumping over a wall.”
- verb (transitive) To break out of confinement. “The prisoners escaped their cell.”
- verb (transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from. “He only got a fine and so escaped going to jail.”
- verb (intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment. “Luckily, I escaped with only a fine.”
- verb (intransitive) To avoid responsibilities and stresses for a time. “Work was stressful, and I needed to escape.”
- verb (transitive) To be forgotten by. “I used to know the name of the capital of France, but it escapes me now.”
- verb (transitive) To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by. “The name of the hotel escapes me at present.”
- verb (transitive, computing) To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted literally, instead of with any special meaning it would usually have in the same context, often by prefixing with another character. “When using the "bash" shell, you can escape the ampersand character with a backslash.”
- noun The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation. “The prisoners made their escape by digging a tunnel.”
- noun Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
- noun Something that has escaped; an escapee.
- noun A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life.
- noun (computing) escape key
- noun (programming) The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal). “You forgot to insert an escape in the datastream.”
- noun (snooker) A successful shot from a snooker position.
- noun (manufacturing) A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.
Synonyms
break loose take it on the lam flight escapism evasion dodging leak leakage outflow safety valve relief valve escape valve escape cock get away miss get off get by get out elude scat run scarper turn tail lam run away hightail it bunk head for the hills take to the woods fly the coop
Etymology
From Middle English escapen, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French escaper ( = Old French eschaper, modern French échapper), from Vulgar Latin *excappāre (“to escape a garment, get out of one's clothing”, literally “to free oneself from one's cape”), from Latin ex- (“out”) + Late Latin cappa (“cape, cloak”). Cognate with escapade. Also doublet of scape.
Webster’s 1913
- verb To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger. "Sailors that escaped the wreck." Shak.
- verb To avoid the notice of; to pass unobserved by; to evade; as, the fact escaped our attention.
- verb To flee, and become secure from danger; --often followed by from or out of. Haste, for thy life escape, nor look behindKeble.
- verb To get clear from danger or evil of any form; to be passed without harm.
Etymology [OE. escapen, eschapen, OF. escaper, eschaper, F. echapper, fr. LL. ex cappa out of one's cape or cloak; hence, to slip out of one's cape and escape. See 3d Cape, and cf. Scape, v.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “escape”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details