escaped : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: escaped	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
escaped adj having escaped, especially from confinement; "a convict still at large"; "searching for two escaped prisoners"; "dogs loose on the streets"; "criminals on the loose in the neighborhood" Synonym(s): at large(p), escaped, loose, on the loose(p)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Escape \Escape"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Escaped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Escaping}.] [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.] 1. To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger. [bd]Sailors that escaped* the wreck.[b8] --Shak. 2. To avoid the notice of; to pass unobserved by; to evade; as, the fact escaped our attention. They escaped the search of the enemy. --Ludlow.