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1 escape
[i'skeip] 1. verb1) (to gain freedom: He escaped from prison.) escapar2) (to manage to avoid (punishment, disease etc): She escaped the infection.) escapar a3) (to avoid being noticed or remembered by; to avoid (the observation of): The fact escaped me / my notice; His name escapes me / my memory.) escapar4) ((of a gas, liquid etc) to leak; to find a way out: Gas was escaping from a hole in the pipe.) escapar2. noun((act of) escaping; state of having escaped: Make your escape while the guard is away; There have been several escapes from that prison; Escape was impossible; The explosion was caused by an escape of gas.) fuga- escapism- escapist* * *es.cape[isk'eip] n 1 fuga, evasão. 2 libertação, salvação, salvamento. I had a narrow escape from being run over / por um triz eu teria sido atropelado. fire escape / saída de emergência. 3 Psych fuga dos fatos da realidade. 4 escape, escapamento, saída (água, gás). • vt+vi 1 escapar, evadir(-se), fugir. nothing escapes him / nada lhe escapa. his purpose escapes me / não compreendo a sua intenção. his name escapes me / não me recordo do seu nome. 2 livrar(-se), libertar(-se), desvencilhar-se. 3 salvar-se, safar-se, sobreviver. the sailor escaped the wreck / o marujo salvou-se do naufrágio. 4 ficar de fora. -
2 close call/shave
(a narrow (often lucky) escape: That was a close shave - that car nearly ran you over.) à tangente -
3 close call/shave
(a narrow (often lucky) escape: That was a close shave - that car nearly ran you over.) tangente, fina
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narrow escape — {n. phr.} An escape by a very small margin; a near miss. * /If the truck that hit his car had been coming faster, it would have killed him; it was certainly a narrow escape that he only had a broken arm!/ … Dictionary of American idioms
narrow escape — {n. phr.} An escape by a very small margin; a near miss. * /If the truck that hit his car had been coming faster, it would have killed him; it was certainly a narrow escape that he only had a broken arm!/ … Dictionary of American idioms
narrow\ escape — n. phr. An escape by a very small margin; a near miss. If the truck that hit his car had been coming faster, it would have killed him; it was certainly a narrow escape that he only had a broken arm! … Словарь американских идиом
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