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Synonyms & Antonyms of scape
to get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery
- the queen has vowed that none of the traitors shall scape the gallows, be their station ever so high
Synonyms for scape
- avoid,
- dodge,
- duck,
- elude,
- escape,
- eschew,
- evade,
- finesse,
- get around,
- shake,
- shirk,
- shuffle (out of),
- shun,
- weasel (out of)
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The first known use of scape was in the 13th century
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