Escapes

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

1. Three people died in the fire
2. but John escaped through the bedroom window.
3. [escape from] : His family escaped from Germany and arrived in Britain in 1938.
4. People trying to escape poverty
5. [escape from] : She saw university as a way to escape from her oppressive home life.
6. She was shot while trying to escape.
7. Maggie started talking to me and I thought I’d never escape.
8. [escape someone’s clutches] : He was trying to escape the clutches of two amorous young girls.
9. Two security guards escaped injury in the attack.
10. [escape with] : Mr Smith escaped with cuts and bruises.
11. [escape unhurt/unharmed/unscathed] : Her two-week-old baby escaped unscathed.
12. [escape with your life] : He was lucky to escape with his life.
13. The area has escaped the ravages of war.
14. Hughes seems certain to escape punishment.
15. [narrowly escape] : Durham narrowly escaped defeat in their first match of the season.
16. [escape from] : The cinema allowed people to escape from the depressing realities of their lives.
17. His name escapes me right now.
18. It seems to have escaped him that I was the one who first introduced him to her.
19. [escape your attention/notice] : It had not escaped my attention that Joseph was absent.
20. How will we know if there’s any gas escaping?
21. About five tonnes of crude oil had escaped into the sea.
22. A weary sigh escaped from her lips.
23. We’re hoping to escape to the Algarve in May.