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Definition of escaping : of Escape

Synonyms:

averting, shrinking, declining, shunning, skipping, abstaining, avoiding, evading, shirking, sidestepping, eluding, dodging, recoiling, bypassing, circumventing, ducking

emigrating, breaking out, getting away

Usage examples:

• I was fortunate in escaping the actual parting scene between Eveena and her family, and my own leave- taking was hurried. - "Across the Zodiac", Percy Greg.
• Think you're escaping and run into yourself. - "Ulysses", James Joyce.
• Under local management the cost of public roads fell chiefly upon the farmers, cities escaping taxation for this purpose, except for their own streets. - "Community Civics and Rural Life", Arthur W. Dunn.