Roget's Thesaurus

#671. Escape

Nouns

escape, scape; avolation, elopement, flight; evasion etc. (avoidance) 623; retreat; narrow escape, hairbreadth escape; close call; come off, impunity. [Means of escape] loophole etc. (opening) 260; path etc. 627; refuse etc. 666; vent, vent peg; safety valve; drawbridge, fire escape. reprieve etc. (deliverance) 672; liberation etc. 750. refugee etc. (fugitive) 623.

Verbs

escape, scape; make one's escape, effect one's escape, make good one's escape; break jail; get off, get clear off, get well out of; echapper belle [Fr.], save one's bacon, save one's skin; weather the storm etc. (safe) 664; escape scot-free. elude etc., make off etc. (avoid) 623; march off etc. (go away) 293; give one the slip; slip through the hands, slip through the fingers; slip the collar, wriggle out of prison, break out, break loose, break loose from prison; break away, slip away, get away; find vent, find a hole to creep out of. disappear, vanish.

Adjectives

escaping, escaped etc. v.. stolen away, fled.

Phrases

the bird has flown the coop.