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Synonyms

accumulate, appreciate, balloon, build, burgeon, enlarge, expand, increase, mount, multiply, mushroom, proliferate, rise, snowball, swell, wax—more at INCREASE

es·ca·la·tor noun : a moving set of stairs

es·ca·pade noun [ORIGIN: F, action of escaping]

: a mischievous adventure

Synonyms

antic, caper, frolic, monkeyshine, practical joke, prank, trick—more at PRANK

1escape verb es·caped; es·cap·ing [ORIGIN: ME, fr. OF escaper, fr. (assumed) VL excappare, fr. L ex- out + LL cappa head covering, cloak]

1 : to get free or away

2 : to avoid a threatening evil

3 : miss or succeed in averting : AVOID 2 <~ injury>

4 : to fail to be noticed or recallable by : ELUDE

5 : to be produced or uttered involuntarily by

Synonyms

[1] abscond, clear out, flee, fly, get out, lam, run away, run off; also avoid, elude, evade, lose, shun; decamp, depart, exit, leave; disentangle, extricate; emancipate, free, liberate, redeem, release

[3] avoid, dodge, duck, elude, eschew, evade, shake, shirk, shun; also miss; avert, deflect, divert, obviate, parry, prevent, ward (off); debar, exclude, preclude; bypass, circumvent, skirt; foil, frustrate, outwit, thwart

2escape noun 1 : flight from or avoidance of something unpleasant

2 : LEAKAGE

3 : a means of escape

Synonyms

[1] avoidance, cop-out, evasion, out; also bypassing, circumvention; averting, deflection, prevention

[3] flight, getaway, lam, slip; also deliverance, liberation, redemption, release, rescue, salvation

3escape adjective : providing a means or way of escape

es·cap·ee noun : one that has escaped esp. from prison

escape velocity noun : the minimum velocity needed by a body (as a rocket) to escape from the gravitational field of a celestial body (as the earth)

es·cap·ism noun : diversion of the mind to imaginative activity as an escape from routine

— es·cap·ist adjective or noun

es·car·got noun, plural -gots : a snail prepared for use as food

es·ca·role noun : ENDIVE 1

es·carp·ment noun 1 : a steep slope in front of a fortification

2 : a long cliff

Synonyms

bluff, cliff, crag, palisade, precipice, scarp—more at CLIFF

es·chew verb : to avoid habitually esp. on moral or practical grounds : SHUN, AVOID

Synonyms

avoid, dodge, duck, elude, escape, evade, shake, shirk, shun—more at ESCAPE

1escort noun : one (as a person or warship) accompanying another esp. as a protection or courtesy

Synonyms

attendant, companion, guard, guide; also chaperon, squire; shadow, sidekick; conductor, leader, pilot

2escort verb : to accompany as an escort

Synonyms

accompany, attend, convoy, squire—more at ACCOMPANY

es·crow noun : something (as a deed or a sum of money) delivered by one person to another to be delivered to a third party only upon the fulfillment of a condition; also : a fund or deposit serving as an escrow

es·cutch·eon noun : the usu. shield-shaped surface on which a coat of arms is shown

Esd abbreviation Esdras

Es·dras noun 1 : either of two books of the Roman Catholic canon of the Old Testament:

a : a narrative book of canonical Jewish and Christian Scripture

b : narrative and historical book of canonical Jewish and Christian Scripture

2 : either of two uncanonical books of Scripture included in the Protestant Apocrypha

ESE abbreviation east-southeast

Es·ki·mo noun 1 : a member of a group of peoples of northern Canada, Greenland, Alaska, and eastern Siberia

2 : any of the languages of the Eskimo peoples

Eskimo dog noun : a sled dog of American origin

ESL abbreviation English as a second language

esoph·a·gus noun, plural -gi : a muscular tube that leads from the cavity behind the mouth to the stomach

— esoph·a·geal adjective

es·o·ter·ic adjective 1 : designed for or understood only by the specially initiated; broadly : difficult to understand

2 : PRIVATE, SECRET

Synonyms

abstruse, deep, profound—more at PROFOUND

esp abbreviation especially

ESP noun