Dictionary entry
Escape
Pronunciation: /ɪˈskeɪp/
Pronunciation
/ɪˈskeɪp/
Myanmar Meaning
(n) လွတ်မြောက်ခြင်း (v) လွတ်မြောက်
Definition
escape /Ç'skeÇp/ v ၁။ ~ (from sb/sth) လြတ္သည္။ လြတ္ေျမာက္ သည္။ လြတ္သြားသည္။ Two prisoners have escaped. ❍ an escaped convict ❍ A lion has escaped from its cage. ❍ She longed to escape from her mother's domination. ❍ ( fig ) As a child he would often escape into a dream world of his own. ၂။ (no passive) ေရွာင္တိမ္းသည္။ ေရွာင္ရွားသည္။ လႊဲေရွာင္သည္။ Two of the gang were caught but their leader escaped (capture/arrest). ❍ Where can we go to escape the crowds? ❍ you can't escape the fact that you're overweight. ❍ escape criticism/being criticized for sth. ၃။ စိမ့္သည္။ ယိုသည္။ ထြက္သည္။ There's gas escaping somewhere — can you smell it? ❍ heat escaping through a window ❍ ( fig ) No sound escaped his lips. ၄။ ~ (with sth) (ထင္ သေလာက္မဆိုးဘဲ) လြတ္ေျမာက္သည္။ escape with a warning ❍ escape very lightly ❍ The driver of the other car escaped unscathed/escaped with minor cuts and bruises. ၅။ (no passive) ေမ့ေလ်ာ့သည္။ အမႈမဲ့ အမွတ္မဲ့ ျဖစ္သည္။ Her name escapes me (ie I can't remember it). ❍ The fault escaped observation (ie was not noticed) for months. ❍ Nothing escapes him/his attention (ie He notices everything). ❍ ( ironic ) It might have escaped your notice that I've been unusually busy recently. အခုတစ္ေလာ က်ဳပ္အလုပ္ဒီေလာက္မ်ားေနတာကိုေတာ့ မျမင္ဘူး မဟုတ္လား။ (အားေနတာေတာ့ ျမင္တတ္တယ္။ ) n ၁။ [C, U] ~ (from sth) (က) လြတ္ေျမာက္ျခင္း။ There was little possibility of escape. ❍ three recent successful escapes/escape bids from this prison ❍ She made her escape when the guard's back was turned. ❍ We had a miraculous/narrow/lucky escape. (ခ) လြတ္လမ္း။ လြတ္ေပါက္။ seek escape from the noise ❍ There was no escape from her disastrous marriage. ❍ our escape route ❍ The police have just found the escape vehicle. ❍ He got out through the escape hatch (eg on a ship or an aircraft). See also FIRE-ESCAPE ၂။ [sing] ေမ့ေမ့ ေပ်ာက္ေပ်ာက္ ျဖစ္ေစေသာအရာ။ ထြက္ေပါက္။ He listens to music as an escape from the pressures of work. ၃။ [C] ယိုစိမ့္မႈ။ an escape of gas. ❏ make good one's escape [ IDM ] လြတ္လြတ္ကြၽတ္ကြၽတ္ လြတ္ေျမာက္သြားသည္။
Examples
- Three people died in the fire
- but John escaped through the bedroom window.
- [escape from] : His family escaped from Germany and arrived in Britain in 1938.
- People trying to escape poverty
- [escape from] : She saw university as a way to escape from her oppressive home life.
- She was shot while trying to escape.
- Maggie started talking to me and I thought I’d never escape.
- [escape someone’s clutches] : He was trying to escape the clutches of two amorous young girls.
- Two security guards escaped injury in the attack.
- [escape with] : Mr Smith escaped with cuts and bruises.
- [escape unhurt/unharmed/unscathed] : Her two-week-old baby escaped unscathed.
- [escape with your life] : He was lucky to escape with his life.
- The area has escaped the ravages of war.
- Hughes seems certain to escape punishment.
- [narrowly escape] : Durham narrowly escaped defeat in their first match of the season.
- [escape from] : The cinema allowed people to escape from the depressing realities of their lives.
- His name escapes me right now.
- It seems to have escaped him that I was the one who first introduced him to her.
- [escape your attention/notice] : It had not escaped my attention that Joseph was absent.
- How will we know if there’s any gas escaping?
- About five tonnes of crude oil had escaped into the sea.
- A weary sigh escaped from her lips.
- We’re hoping to escape to the Algarve in May.