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ESCAPED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having escaped, especially from confinement
Example:
criminals on the loose in the neighborhood
Synonyms:
at large; escaped; loose; on the loose
Classified under:
Similar:
free (not limited or hampered; not under compulsion or restraint)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb escape
Context examples:
I escaped from them to the room where lay the body of Elizabeth, my love, my wife, so lately living, so dear, so worthy.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
He escaped as you have just described.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There was a rumour that he had been seen in Westminster in the next week, and then that he had escaped for America, but nothing more is known.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“No longer ago than last night at the 'Pied Merlin,'” the clerk answered, recognizing the escaped serf who had been so outspoken as to his wrongs.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
NOD1 and NOD2, two prototypic NLRs, sense the cytosolic presence of the bacterial peptidoglycan fragments that escaped from endosomal compartments, driving the activation of NF-kappa-B and MAPK, cytokine production and apoptosis.
(NOD-Like Receptor Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)
"It contains gas and dust - which are the seed materials for stars and galaxies. Now, we have a better understanding of how this matter escaped from inside galaxies over time."
(Galactic Wind Provides Clues to Evolution of Galaxies, NASA)
I kept, among other little necessaries, a pair of spectacles in a private pocket, which, as I observed before, had escaped the emperor’s searchers.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
His eyes were wide apart; nothing in their field of vision escaped; and as they drank in the beauty before them the fighting light died out and a warm glow took its place.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The coal replied: “I fortunately sprang out of the fire, and if I had not escaped by sheer force, my death would have been certain,—I should have been burnt to ashes.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
As a result, the planet’s early ocean evaporated, water-vapor molecules were broken apart by ultraviolet radiation, and hydrogen escaped to space.
(NASA Climate Modeling Suggests Venus May Have Been Habitable, NASA)
