A word for an escape attempt

FullblownRose

Hi!

What's a word for an escape attempt?

Eeden

I've been racking my brain since I saw your post, and haven't been able to come up with a single word.

RobbingBandit

Decamp or Abscond.

Eeden

RobbingBandit wrote: »

Decamp or Abscond.

Escape attempt seems to me to be ambiguous about the success. Decamp and abscond don't have that ambiguity, to my mind.

feargale

Evade, according to Wiktionary.
Also, I'm wondering about abscond.

jimd2

Sorry but what's wrong with "escape attempt"?

padjo5

Flee?

feargale

jimd2 wrote: »

Sorry but what's wrong with "escape attempt"?

Nothing at all, but OP asked for one word. No idea why OP asked for one word, maybe composing a poem or something. Anyway, you're obviously Irish, answering a question with another one.

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feargale wrote: »

Nothing at all, but OP asked for one word. No idea why OP asked for one word, maybe composing a poem or something. Anyway, you're obviously Irish, answering a question with another one.

best trick in the book



any way one word for escpe attempt "redemption-song"

Eeden

I get it. Sometimes you are sure that there must be one word for a particular concept. It's just that you can't quite think of it. Sometimes you're right when you think this -- and sometimes you're wrong. I'm not sure in this case.

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Eeden wrote: »

I get it. Sometimes you are sure that there must be one word for a particular concept. It's just that you can't quite think of it. Sometimes you're right when you think this -- and sometimes you're wrong. I'm not sure in this case.

ya what would you be escaping from


in german it would be fluchtversuch (flucktfersuke)

Eeden

Nice one! In German, you can smash together lots of words into one, making entire concepts into one word. Kinda cool.

feargale

Eeden wrote: »

Nice one! In German, you can smash together lots of words into one, making entire concepts into one word. Kinda cool.

Same in Turkish, I think, and lots of other languages, maybe Inuit too. Is that what they call agglutination?

kissmequick

There's one word like skipped town but I can't think of it right now.

How about skedaddled?

Fled?



Baled think that was what I was trying to think of. Far too lazy to look up spelling. Baled or bailed? He baled (out) on them.

Eeden

I think that the word wanted by the OP is more about the attempt than the escape.

kissmequick

botch! Covers anything attempted that didn't go according to plan! Am impressed with me grey matter at 10 to 4 in the am!

Gatame

Best bet might be to try and find it through latin.. I also have a feeling theres a word with the prefix 'sub' but I can't put my finger on it..

FullblownRose

I had a feeling there would be a word for it in a foreign language actually!
I want to be able to say escape attempt in a few different ways rather than saying escape attempt every time. An escape attemt is an exciting/adventurous thing and escape attemt doesnt convey that well enough.
I thought there might be a Latin, or French word. Drapetomania is the overwhelming urge to run away so I thought there might be one beginning with 'D'.

TreasureBin

"make a break for it" would be less definite? And "attempted getaway" has more of a criminal vibe if that's what you had in mind.