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

Beneficiaries include people recovering from natural disasters, families traveling for medical care and survivors escaping domestic violence. — ABC News, 29 Oct. 2026

Jaros and Rauh also try to account for the uncertainty over whether taxes can be collected from other billionaires, such as the ones who have left since the beginning of the year and may thus have a legal case for escaping the tax. — Ramesh Ponnuru, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2026

Instead of escaping the jam, Booser ended up on the wrong side of history. — Ryan Canfield Outkick, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2026

Sometimes—particularly in cases involving botched disclosures that break embargoes months before they’re scheduled to lift—there’s no escaping the lack of actionable information in initial reporting. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 27 Oct. 2026

The senator gave a curt answer before hastily escaping the shot. — Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 26 Oct. 2026

Getting dressed has often been a way of escaping those feelings. — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2026

And announcing a move is not the same thing as escaping the tax. — Bilin Lin, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2026

The risks are already visible in models that deploy agents capable of evading their guardrails, escaping their sandboxes, cheating to obtain their goals, and covering their tracks to conceal the cheating. — Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2026