escaped

Adjective
Synonyms: at large(p)looseon the loose(p)

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (1)

  1. having escaped, especially from confinement“a convict still at large”“searching for two escaped prisoners”“dogs loose on the streets”“criminals on the loose in the neighborhood”Synonyms: at large(p)looseon the loose(p)
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Escape \Es*cape"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Escaped; p. pr. & vb. n. Escaping.] [OE. escapen, eschapen, OF. escaper, eschaper, F. echapper, fr. LL. ex cappa out of one's cape or cloak; hence, to slip out of one's cape and escape. See 3d Cape, and cf. Scape, v.]

1.To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger. "Sailors that escaped the wreck." --Shak. [1913 Webster]

2.To avoid the notice of; to pass unobserved by; to evade; as, the fact escaped our attention. [1913 Webster]

They escaped the search of the enemy.— Ludlow.[1913 Webster]
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