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1 escape
[i'skeip] 1. verb1) (to gain freedom: He escaped from prison.) sleppa, brjóstast út, flÿja2) (to manage to avoid (punishment, disease etc): She escaped the infection.) komast hjá3) (to avoid being noticed or remembered by; to avoid (the observation of): The fact escaped me / my notice; His name escapes me / my memory.) gleymast4) ((of a gas, liquid etc) to leak; to find a way out: Gas was escaping from a hole in the pipe.) leka2. 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.) flótti; gasleki- escapism- escapist -
2 at large
1) ((of prisoners etc) free: Despite the efforts of the police, the escaped prisoner is still at large.) sem leikur lausum hala2) (in general: the country / the public at large.) almennt -
3 bring to justice
(to arrest, try and sentence (a criminal): The murderer escaped but was finally brought to justice.) láta svara til saka fyrir dómstóli -
4 by means of
(using: We escaped by means of a secret tunnel.) með því að nota -
5 by the skin of one's teeth
(very narrowly; only just: We escaped by the skin of our teeth.) með naumindum -
6 cage
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7 captive
['kæptiv] 1. noun(a prisoner: Two of the captives escaped.) fangi2. adjective(kept prisoner: captive soldiers; The children were taken/held captive.) fanginn, í haldi- captor
- capture 3. noun1) (the act of capturing.) handtaka, föngun2) (something caught: A kangaroo was his most recent capture.) fang, fangi, veiði -
8 convict
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9 cover
1. verb1) (to put or spread something on, over or in front of: They covered (up) the body with a sheet; My shoes are covered in paint.) þekja2) (to be enough to pay for: Will 10 dollars cover your expenses?) nægja fyrir3) (to travel: We covered forty miles in one day.) fara, komast4) (to stretch over a length of time etc: His diary covered three years.) ná yfir5) (to protect: Are we covered by your car insurance?) vera tryggður6) (to report on: I'm covering the race for the local newspaper.) safna fréttum sem fréttamaður7) (to point a gun at: I had him covered.) hafa í skotmáli2. noun1) (something which covers, especially a cloth over a table, bed etc: a table-cover; a bed-cover; They replaced the cover on the manhole.) ábreiða; lok2) (something that gives protection or shelter: The soldiers took cover from the enemy gunfire; insurance cover.) skjól3) (something that hides: He escaped under cover of darkness.) skjól•- coverage- covering
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10 escape / get off / go scot free
(to be or remain unhurt or unpunished: The car was badly damaged in the accident, but the driver escaped scot-free.) sleppa ómeiddur/óskaðaðurEnglish-Icelandic dictionary > escape / get off / go scot free
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11 gorilla
[ɡə'rilə](the largest type of ape: Two gorillas have escaped from the zoo.) górilla -
12 hound
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13 hunt down
(to search for (someone or something) until found: The police hunted down the escaped prisoner.) leita (og finna), elta uppi -
14 prisoner
noun (anyone who has been captured and is held against his will as a criminal, in a war etc: The prisoners escaped from jail.) fangi -
15 refuge
['refju:‹]((a place which gives) shelter or protection from danger, trouble etc: The escaped prisoner sought refuge in the church.) skÿli, athvarf- refugee -
16 scale
I [skeil] noun1) (a set of regularly spaced marks made on something (eg a thermometer or a ruler) for use as a measure; a system of numbers, measurement etc: This thermometer has two scales marked on it, one in Fahrenheit and one in Centigrade.) skali, mælikvarði2) (a series or system of items of increasing or decreasing size, value etc: a wage/salary scale.) þrep, flokkur, stigi3) (in music, a group of notes going up or down in order: The boy practised his scales on the piano.) tónstigi4) (the size of measurements on a map etc compared with the real size of the country etc shown by it: In a map drawn to the scale 1:50,000, one centimetre represents half a kilometre.) mælikvarði5) (the size of an activity: These guns are being manufactured on a large scale.) magnII [skeil] verb(to climb (a ladder, cliff etc): The prisoner scaled the prison walls and escaped.) klifra, klífaIII [skeil] noun(any of the small thin plates or flakes that cover the skin of fishes, reptiles etc: A herring's scales are silver in colour.) hreisturflaga- scaly -
17 subsequently
adverb (afterwards: He escaped from prison but was subsequently recaptured.) síðar -
18 terrorise
verb (to make very frightened by using or threatening violence: A lion escaped from the zoo and terrorized the whole town.) ógna, skelfa -
19 terrorize
verb (to make very frightened by using or threatening violence: A lion escaped from the zoo and terrorized the whole town.) ógna, skelfa -
20 tunnel
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См. также в других словарях:
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escaped prisoner — index fugitive Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
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escaped — adjective That or who has escaped, especially from prison or another place of confinement. People are being warned not to approach the escaped prisoner … Wiktionary
escaped — es|caped [ ı skeıpt ] adjective an escaped prisoner or animal has escaped from a prison or from a ZOO … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
escaped — UK [ɪˈskeɪpt] / US adjective an escaped prisoner or animal has escaped from a prison or from a zoo … English dictionary
escaped — adjective having escaped, especially from confinement (Freq. 1) a convict still at large searching for two escaped prisoners dogs loose on the streets criminals on the loose in the neighborhood • Syn: ↑at large, ↑loose, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
escaped — adj. Escaped is used with these nouns: ↑convict, ↑prisoner, ↑slave … Collocations dictionary
escaped prisoner — one who has escaped from jail, one who has broken out of prison … English contemporary dictionary
