Hypertext Webster Gateway: "escaped"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Escape \Es*cape"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Escaped}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Escaping}.] [OE. escapen, eschapen, OF. escaper,
eschaper, F. echapper, fr. LL. ex cappa out of one's cape or
cloak; hence, to slip out of one's cape and escape. See 3d
{Cape}, and cf. {Scape}, v.]
1. To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to
shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger.
``Sailors that escaped the wreck.'' --Shak.
2. To avoid the notice of; to pass unobserved by; to evade;
as, the fact escaped our attention.
They escaped the search of the enemy. --Ludlow.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
escaped
adj : having escaped, especially from confinement; "a convict
still at large"; "searching for two escaped prisoners";
"dogs loose on the streets"; "criminals on the loose in
the neighborhood" [syn: {at large(p)}, {at liberty(p)},
{loose}, {on the loose(p)}]
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