échapper

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French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French eschapper, from Old French eschaper, from Vulgar Latin *excappāre, a verb based on Late Latin cappa (cloak). Doublet of escaper.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /e.ʃa.pe/
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Verb

échapper

  1. (intransitive, followed by à or de) to escape (from), evade
    • 1985, Pierre Faucon de Boylesve, Être et Savoir : étude du fondement de l'intelligibilité dans la pensée médiévale, p.123
      La manifestation théophanique consacre le projet de découvrir l’Invisible et de le dévoiler per suam essentiam en étayant la conviction que sa substance est immanente au monde, à l’homme et à l’histoire au titre de sa causalité créatrice — substantia sua adest omnibus ut causa essendi — et ceci de façon telle que rien néchappe à son regard en dépit de la distance qui la sépare du monde.
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    échapper à la mortto escape death
    échapper des mains de quelqu’unto slip out of someone's hands
    Rien ne lui échappe.Nothing escapes him/her.
  2. (Quebec, transitive) to drop an object unintentionally
    Tu as échappé ta tuque.You dropped your hat.
  3. (reflexive, s'échapper followed by de) to escape, break out (e.g., from prison)
  4. (reflexive, s'échapper) to go away, run away

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