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Verb
- remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion
- We escaped to our summer house for a few days
- The president of the company never manages to get away during the summer
- escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action
- She gets away with murder!
- I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities
- run away from confinement
- The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison