escaped
having escaped, especially from confinement
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,556 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 11,772 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.006% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- having escaped, especially from confinement also: at large, loose, on the loose a convict still at largesearching for two escaped prisoners
escaped in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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It was charming to have escaped all that!
The Picture of Dorian Gray · Oscar Wilde · Chapter 1
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The girl took to her heels, and escaped.
In the Wilderness · Charles Dudley Warner · Chapter 1
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My thoughts obeyed me no longer--my will escaped my control.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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He was saying something with marked emphasis, but the words escaped the tailor's ears.
The Shadow of a Crime: A Cumbrian Romance · Hall, Sir Caine · Chapter 1
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He barely escaped with his life, was driven out of the city and became an exile because of his actions.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1