escape tunnels
Secret underground passages
Escape tunnels are underground passages dug to flee from confinement—prisons, POW camps, or besieged positions.
The term evokes dramatic wartime escapes: They spent months digging an escape tunnel beneath the barracks.
Figuratively, an escape tunnel is any secret way out of an unwanted situation.
- undergroundBelow ground or countercultural
- passageSegment of text
- secretConcealed information
- bunkerReinforced subterranean stronghold
- POW campDetention site for captured soldiers
digging · dig site · prisoners · war · wooden horse · crawling · darkness · dirt · hidden · freedom · trapdoor · prison break · smuggling · walls · concealed · false wall · exit · burrow
- undergroundunderground, subterranean, cave systems, underground passages, tube
- Berlin historyBerlin Wall, Brandenburg Gate, Checkpoint Charlie, East Berlin, West Berlin
- Cold War GermanyBerlin Wall, East Germany, West Germany, German reunification, divided Germany
- POW campsPOW, POW camp, prison camp, prisoners, prisoner
- tunnelsportal, bore, TBM, Chunnel, underground passages
- prisoncell block, inmate, jail, prison, prisoner
escape tunnelsfront gate
Primary property entrance
main entrance · front door · checkpoint · main gate · public entrance
escape tunnelsprison cells
Confined inmate chambers
dungeons · detention cells · holding cells · oubliettes · solitary confinement
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