ESCAPE FROM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does escape from mean? 

• ESCAPE FROM (verb)
  The verb ESCAPE FROM has 1 sense:

1. get rid of

  Familiarity information: ESCAPE FROM used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ESCAPE FROM (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Get rid of

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

escape from; shake; shake off; throw off

Context example:

I couldn't shake the car that was following me

Hypernyms (to "escape from" is one way to...):

break loose; escape; get away (run away from confinement)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

Sordid in my grief, sordid in my love, sordid in my miserable escape from the darker side of both, oh see the ruin I am, and hate me, shun me!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They were soon gone again, rising from their seats with an activity which took their brother by surprise, and hurrying off as if eager to escape from Mrs. Bennet's civilities.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I could see the vain beat and flutter of her as she strove, pressing her face against his breast, to escape from him.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But she could not escape from her childhood training nor from the blood that was in her.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The latter, unable to escape from the shower of blows, set spurs to his mule and rode for his life, with his enemy thundering behind him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The refrain maddened him, and he tried to escape from it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She had thought only of avoiding Captain Wentworth; but an escape from being appealed to as umpire was now added to the advantages of a quiet evening.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

What shall I do? what can I do? How can I escape from this dreadful thing of night and gloom and fear?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“Alas! I already feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She must escape from him and Mansfield as soon as possible, and find consolation in fortune and consequence, bustle and the world, for a wounded spirit.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)