ESCAPED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does escaped mean? 

• ESCAPED (adjective)
  The adjective ESCAPED has 1 sense:

1. having escaped, especially from confinement

  Familiarity information: ESCAPED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ESCAPED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having escaped, especially from confinement

Synonyms:

at large; escaped; loose; on the loose

Context example:

criminals on the loose in the neighborhood

Similar:

free (not limited or hampered; not under compulsion or restraint)

 Context examples 

There was no doubt that we had escaped unseen.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Her dirty petticoat quite escaped my notice.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Well then, sir, I accounts for it this way; it seems to me that 'ere wolf escaped—simply because he wanted to get out.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Night settled down and she escaped.

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

In answer to Inspector Martin, they were clear that every door was fastened upon the inside, and that no one could have escaped from the house.

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

“You are hungry,” I remarked. “Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since breakfast.”

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

Sauntering around the corner of the house in the early morning, he came upon a chicken that had escaped from the chicken-yard.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"Oh, yes, well, we give from twenty-five to thirty for things of this sort. Pay when it comes out," returned Mr. Dashwood, as if that point had escaped him.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Not a sound escaped from him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Again, both father and son agreed as to the place where the man escaped into the road.

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