escape attempt
Bid for freedom
An escape attempt is an effort to break free from confinement or captivity.
The phrase typically describes prisoners trying to flee detention: The escape attempt was foiled by guards.
It can apply to any situation where someone tries to get away from restraint—a kidnapping victim, a trapped animal, or figuratively, someone stuck in an unpleasant situation: His escape attempt from the dinner party failed when his wife caught his eye.
- breakoutSudden escape from restraint
- prison breakEscape from custody
- fugitiveOne fleeing authorities
- on the runActively avoiding capture
- prisonConfinement for offenders
flee · run · getaway · getaway car · tunnel · chase · pursuit · freedom · desperate · rope · wall · guard tower · guards · barbed wire · manhunt · bolt · dash · evasion
- prison riotsuprising, lockdown, inmates, guards, hostages
- prisonsprison, inmates, cells, prisons, prisoner
- Berlin WallBerlin Wall, Brandenburg Gate, Checkpoint Charlie, East Berlin, West Berlin
- jailinmate, inmates, prisoner, cells, cell block
- prison deathsexecution, lethal injection, electric chair, suicide, hanging
- cliffhangersseason finale, plot twist, to be continued, twist ending, suspense
escape attemptsurrender
Cease resistance, yield
capitulation · submission · giving up · compliance · resignation
escape attemptrecapture
Seize again after loss
capture · apprehension · arrest · imprisonment · incarceration
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