livistää — meaning in English
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English meaning
- abscond verb To leave secretly and hurriedly, usually to escape custody or having taken something that is not yours.
- escape verb To get free from confinement, danger, or an unpleasant situation.
- evade verb To cleverly avoid or escape something, such as a person, question, or duty.
- levant name A cultural region of West Asia, consisting of the countries bordering the eastern Mediterranean Sea, namely Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Cyprus (and sometimes, especially in a historical context, also including Turkey and Egypt, then part of the Ottoman Empire).
- skip verb To move along lightly with a hop in each step.
Senses
livistää is used for these senses in English:
- abscond (intransitive) To flee, often secretly; to steal away. [From mid 16th century.]
- bail out (intransitive, idiomatic, slang) To leave (or not attend at all) a place or a situation, especially quickly or when the situation has become undesirable; to abandon (something).
- escape (transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
- evade (transitive) To get away from by cunning; to avoid by using dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to cleverly escape from.
- evade (transitive) To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from.
- give someone the slip (idiomatic) To evade, escape, or get away from somebody.
- levant To abscond or run away, especially to avoid paying money or debts.
- skip (transitive, informal) To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.
escape — full definition
- verb To get free from confinement, danger, or an unpleasant situation.
- verb To avoid something unpleasant, such as punishment or notice.
- noun The act of getting free from a dangerous, confining, or unwanted situation.