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Plural of escape

regular plural

The plural of escape is escapes.

Forms of escape

Singularescape /ɪˈskeɪp/
Pluralescapes
Countablecountable and uncountable

Escapes in a sentence

  • I used to know the name of the capital of France, but it escapes me now.
  • The name of the hotel escapes me at present.
  • Houdini took his secrets to the grave, as he died shortly after performing one of his most famous escapes.From the entry take to the grave
  • Heat evolved by the chemical reaction escapes through the upper side of the recombinator.1982, Wolfgang Palz, Photovoltaic power generation - Volume 1, page 98. From the entry recombinator
  • Rule 34 is a blackhole in which nothing ever escapes.2022 May 9, Jarren Navarrete, “What is Fortnite R34? Fortnite Rule 34 Explained”, in Sirus Gaming. From the entry R34

Meaning of escape

  1. verb To get free; to free oneself.
  2. verb To break out of confinement.
  3. verb To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.

Full definition of escape

Questions about the plural of escape

What is the plural of escape?
The plural of escape is escapes.
Is escape countable?
Escape is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: escape (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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