Synonyms of escaping

escaping

verb

present participle of escape

1

as in fleeing

to get free from a dangerous or confining situation

everyone managed to escape from the burning building in time

Synonyms & Similar Words

• fleeing
• flying
• leaving
• avoiding
• moving
• absconding
• exiting
• evading
• losing
• getting out
• running away
• running off
• breaking free
• going
• breaking out (of)
• clearing out
• departing
• eluding
• lamming
• rescuing
• shunning
• quitting
• liberating
• eloping
• extricating
• emancipating
• releasing
• freeing
• pulling out
• springing
• walking out
• taking off
• disentangling
• shoving (off)
• decamping
• loosening
• loosing
• redeeming
• enfranchising
• sallying (forth)
• manumitting
• unfettering
• bringing off
• unbinding
• unchaining
• uncaging

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• remaining
• staying
• lingering
• dwelling
• hanging around
• returning
• abiding
• sticking around
• coming back
• tarrying

2

as in avoiding

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• avoiding
• evading
• eluding
• preventing
• dodging
• eschewing
• shunning
• shaking
• deflecting
• eliminating
• shuffling (out of)
• ducking
• shirking
• scaping
• keeping clear of
• circumventing
• steering clear of
• fighting shy of
• staying clear of
• missing
• thwarting
• finessing
• excluding
• precluding
• getting around
• weaseling (out of)
• averting
• obviating
• diverting
• parrying
• banning
• excepting
• warding (off)
• bypassing
• outwitting
• ruling out
• debarring
• foiling
• outsmarting
• barring
• overreaching
• frustrating
• skirting
• outfoxing
• foxing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• seeking
• pursuing
• accepting
• embracing
• catching
• welcoming
• contracting
• courting
• incurring

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of escaping

The agency gets the images within 48 hours, then sends out notices to landfill and oil and gas operators when methane is seen escaping. — Blanca Begert, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026

Purdy has been brilliant at moving within and escaping the pocket. — Chris Biderman, Sacbee.com, 30 Sep. 2026

The Hugging Face incident involved OpenAI models escaping their testing environment and gaining access to the internet, breaching the cyber infrastructure of Hugging Face, an AI company. — Hailey Bullis, The Washington Examiner, 30 Sep. 2026

The incidents range in scope from agents escaping their sandboxes and gaining access to the internet to agents deleting conversations so humans can't monitor their activity, Mills said. — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026

The quietcation travel trend is all about escaping the noise and slowing things down, swapping packed itineraries and busy cities for nature, fresh air, and peaceful activities. — Alessia Armenise, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Sep. 2026

In escaping the grid, suburbanites also escaped municipal sewer systems. — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026

The victim can be seen running full speed away from a man chasing him down with a knife before escaping into a building in a harrowing video taken from a surveillance camera, posted on X by Crown Heights Shmira. — Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 24 Sep. 2026

There’s no escaping the feeling of this mass, and no magic feats of engineering, like with Rivian or various German automakers, will mask this. — Joel Feder, The Drive, 24 Sep. 2026