Scrabble & Words with friends points
- escape is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 10
- escape is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 10
- escape is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 12
Definition of escape
- remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion (verb)
Examples
- We escaped to our summer house for a few days
Synonyms
- get away
- a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level (noun)
Synonyms
- escape cock
- escape valve
- relief valve
- safety valve
- be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by (verb)
Synonyms
- elude
- nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do (noun)
Examples
- that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive
Synonyms
- dodging
- evasion
- fail to experience (verb)
Synonyms
- miss
- the discharge of a fluid from some container (noun)
Examples
- they tried to stop the escape of gas from the damaged pipe
Synonyms
- leak
- leakage
- outflow
- flee; take to one's heels; cut and run (verb)
Examples
- The burglars escaped before the police showed up
Synonyms
- break away
- bunk
- fly the coop
- head for the hills
- hightail it
- lam
- run
- run away
- scarper
- scat
- take to the woods
- turn tail
- run away from confinement (verb)
Examples
- The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison
Synonyms
- break loose
- get away
- an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy (noun)
Examples
- romantic novels were her escape from the stress of daily life
Synonyms
- escapism
- the act of escaping physically (noun)
Examples
- he made his escape from the mental hospital
- the canary escaped from its cage
Synonyms
- flight
- escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action (verb)
Synonyms
- get away
- get by
- get off
- get out
- a means or way of escaping (noun)
Examples
- hard work was his escape from worry
- they installed a second hatch as an escape
- their escape route
- an avoidance of danger or difficulty (noun)
Examples
- that was a narrow escape
- a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild (noun)
- issue or leak, as from a small opening (verb)
Examples
- Gas escaped into the bedroom
See definition of escape in Merriam Webster