ESCAPED Synonyms: 145 Similar and Opposite Words

escaped 1 of 2

adjective

as in unconfined

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verb

past tense of escape

as in fled

to get free from a dangerous or confining situation everyone managed to escape from the burning building in time

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as in evaded

to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery a judge who is very determined not to let criminals escape punishment

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Recent Examples of escaped

Adjective

Miami Beach police have taken an escaped prisoner into custody after a search near Mount Sinai Medical Center Thursday afternoon, authorities said. — Sergio Candido, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026 But these stats reflect firefighting progress at this stage rather than an escaped blaze, the department's public affairs officer Tiffany Davilla explained. — Joan Meiners, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2026 Video released by the Washoe County Sheriff's Office shows deputies finding 23-year-old Chase Orput lying shirtless on railroad tracks moments before taking the escaped inmate back into custody. — Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 29 July 2026 Before the successful capture, the Galahad SPCA said it had been asked not to capture the escaped marsupial or otherwise intervene. — Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 17 June 2026 Stitch centers on a lonely girl who befriends a blue puppy that turns out to be an escaped alien engineered to be a weapon of mass destruction. — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 12 June 2026 Residents in the region say they have been targeted by a coalition led by an escaped prisoner who had been condemned to life in prison before escaping. — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 7 May 2026 His car was found on the Turkey Creek Bridge near Denver, where he had been abducted by an escaped murderer, Joseph Corbett, looking for a quick get-rich scheme. — David Faris, TheWeek, 16 Feb. 2026 Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave, pleaded with President Lincoln to allow Blacks to be able to join the Union. — Literary Hub, 6 Feb. 2026

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Shawn Curtis and his dog Lux escaped through Curtis' bedroom window when waves overtook his apartment. — Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC news, 17 Oct. 2026 That, to me, is the main reason why machine learning escaped a scientific crisis. — Quanta Magazine, 16 Oct. 2026 Charlie has escaped Rose’s Silence of the Lambs dungeon that was alluded to in the last episodes. — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2026 The clues lead them to the obviously evil Bellflower Chemical corporation and a clinical trial called Project Argonaut, from which Pam escaped. — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2026 Hugging Face is best known for operating an open-source developer platform, and the company was thrust into the spotlight in July, when two of OpenAI's models escaped containment and gained access to Hugging Face systems through the open web. — Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026 In the most infamous example, a swarm of 1,000 Open AI agents escaped their sandbox, commandeered online message boards to communicate with each other, and breached the systems of the open source AI community Hugging Face. — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 14 Oct. 2026 After a years-long process, though, both PSG and Manchester City escaped relatively lightly and City seemingly found a friend in the Parisians this time around. — Ben Church, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2026 In July, two of OpenAI’s models escaped a testing environment and hacked the open-source AI platform Hugging Face. — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for escaped

Adjective

However, an unconfined plasma column could instantly destroy solid surfaces upon contact.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 23 July 2026
But even with this extensive network, there still is a need for improvements to address data gaps and enhance the representation of different aquifers, both in confined and unconfined conditions.

— Claire Marks, Austin American-Statesman, 27 Aug. 2024

Definition of unconfined

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Prosecutors leveled new allegations during a bail hearing Friday, accusing the couple of almost never allowing the children outside and claiming that Zhang previously fled the country to avoid an abuse allegation.

— James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026
In the border city of Ayolas, across the Paraná River from Ituzaingó, more than 2,000 people have fled their homes, Mayor Carlos Duarte told a local radio station Friday.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of fled

Verb

Last year, a Houthi missile evaded Israel’s vaunted air defenses and impacted near Ben Gurion airport.

— Tim Lister, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2026
State police said evidence was located at the scene which indicated that a 2022 Triumph Rocket 3 GT, operated by 56-year-old Alexander Rivera of Tobyhanna, Pennsylvania, was struck by vehicle that allegedly evaded the scene.

— Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of evaded

Adjective

Maybe the shooting shook something loose in her and has amplified her worst tendencies.

— Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2026
Think tombstones, solid skeletons, signs or other decorations that hold their shape and don’t have loose or dangling parts.

— Katie Koschalk, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of loose

Adjective

Is realism based only on minds untouched by illness or some other distorting factor, or at least not so touched that that mind becomes, as my grandmother’s is, unbound?

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 July 2026
Then the coach known as the most impulsive man on an NFL sideline runs that stop sign, grits his teeth and breaks unbound into character.

— Michael Silver, New York Times, 16 June 2026

Definition of unbound

Adjective

Be curious, not judgmental All of the above has unleashed theories about Simmons among fans and, of course, in the online world.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 12 Oct. 2026
In 1995, the rape of a 12-year-old girl by three US servicemen unleashed outrage and mass protests in Okinawa.

— Junko Ogura, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of unleashed

Adjective

Football—besides being one of our more ubiquitous and unrestrained national entertainments—has also become one of the rare arenas in American life where highly specialized language can flourish without censure.

— Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2026
Instead, their capacity, unrestrained due to advantages of technology, often gets under additional routines that land on the same psychological ground, already marked by low interest, meaning and involvement.

— Naira Velumyan, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026

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