to escape

Synonyms

avoid

Examples

Is it not want of reason in any one to suppose that when he has striven successfully to escape the dominion of one particular passion, he will find virtue in its opposite? Gregory of Nyssa

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. George Eliot

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. William S. Burroughs

Courage is ten, nine is the ability to escape. Azerbaijani Proverb

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world. English Proverb

Sometimes you have to throw yourself into the fire to escape from the smoke. Greek Proverb

Words in the phrase

to escape

Close letter words and terms

to erase to erect to err is human, to forgive divine to establish to esteem to estimate