ускользну́ть — meaning in English

English meaning

• 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.
• skip verb To move along lightly with a hop in each step.

Senses

ускользну́ть is used for these senses in English:

• escape (intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
• 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.
• skip (transitive, informal) To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.

escape — full definition

1. verb To get free from confinement, danger, or an unpleasant situation.
2. verb To avoid something unpleasant, such as punishment or notice.
3. noun The act of getting free from a dangerous, confining, or unwanted situation.

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