ESCAPED Synonyms: 145 Similar and Opposite Words

escaped 1 of 2

adjective

as in unconfined

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escaped

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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

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 An ambush at a Boise hospital left three Department of Correction officers with gunshot wounds and two suspects, including an escaped prisoner, fleeing from the scene. — Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 20 Jan. 2026 Her grandfather was an escaped slave from Missouri who made his way to Grinnell via the Underground Railroad in 1859 and established himself there as a barber, according to historical records cited by the Drake Community Library. — Nick El Hajj, Des Moines Register, 5 Jan. 2026

Verb

Denis Bouanga scored late in the second half and Los Angeles FC escaped with a 1-1 draw after trailing the Portland Timbers for 75 minutes on Saturday night. — ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026 Their study analyzed more than 2 million chat messages and identified examples involving grooming, sexualization of minors, bullying, violence and sensitive information sharing that escaped moderation. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 21 Aug. 2026 The impact excavated pristine materials from below the lunar surface that have escaped weathering from the solar wind, galactic cosmic rays, and micrometeorites. — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 21 Aug. 2026 Wilbur is believed to have escaped from a home near Poinsettia Park on Willoughby Avenue. — Chelsea Hylton, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026 OpenAI didn’t notice the agents had escaped the secure testing environment for at least a week. — Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2026 The bear later escaped into Pike National Forest, according to the Denver Gazette. — Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2026 About 99% of inmates who escaped or walked away since 1977 from a CDCR adult institution, camp, in-state contract bed or Community Rehabilitative Program Placement were arrested, according to CDCR. — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 20 Aug. 2026 On the play Dart returned, the QB escaped the pocket before finding Fields in the end zone for a leaping touchdown grab. — Charlotte Carroll, New York Times, 16 Aug. 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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Chow, Lee and Ho were prominent figures within Hong Kong’s now-defunct democracy movement, which has seen most of its leaders either jailed, fled overseas or fallen silent.

— Chris Lau, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
By the time the curtain came down after the first act, much of the audience could wait no more and fled for the exits.

— Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of fled

Verb

In the foreseeable future, a terrorist group with minimal skills could access a jailbroken AI model (one that has evaded safety controls) trained on the world’s most comprehensive biological data set.

— Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
Police said Jackson was driving recklessly and evaded a Muscatine County Sheriff's Office deputy who attempted to stop his vehicle Friday evening in Muscatine.

— Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of evaded

Adjective

After a pair of Rapids defenders allowed the ball to drop in the center of the area, Achouri slammed home the loose ball.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026
Maguire tried to increase the dynamism, at one stage ushering Tielemans aside to get a loose ball and dribble forward with purpose.

— Laurie Whitwell, New York Times, 23 Aug. 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

The film ominously warns of an inevitable solar flare on the scale of the 1859 Carrington Event, one that, once unleashed, would reduce all communications networks, the foundations of so much of our modern world then and even more now, to dust.

— Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 20 Aug. 2026
The vibe is enveloping, the songs an easily digestible pastiche of pop splattered with hip-hop and the dancing pinpoint-perfect but loose when the Magnificent Seven are unleashed to showcase their personalities.

— Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of unleashed

Adjective

There is no statewide law banning dogs from riding in a vehicle, but an unrestrained pet that blocks your view or climbs into your lap can lead to a reckless driving citation.

— Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Aug. 2026
At some point during the crash, the unrestrained rear seat passenger was ejected from the vehicle.

— Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 9 Aug. 2026

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