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A word for an escape attempt

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  • 06-06-2014 2:57pm
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    FullblownRose
    Registered Users Posts: 1,501 ✭✭✭


    Hi!

    What's a word for an escape attempt?


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    Eeden
    Registered Users Posts: 17,912 ✭✭✭✭Eeden


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


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    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users Posts: 18,079 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Decamp or Abscond.


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    Eeden
    Registered Users Posts: 17,912 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


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


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    jimd2
    Registered Users Posts: 789 ✭✭✭jimd2


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


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    padjo5
    Registered Users Posts: 536 ✭✭✭padjo5


    Flee?


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    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭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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    forgotten password
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,094 ✭✭✭forgotten password


    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"


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    Eeden
    Registered Users Posts: 17,912 ✭✭✭✭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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    forgotten password
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,094 ✭✭✭forgotten password


    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:confused:


    in german it would be fluchtversuch (flucktfersuke)


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    Eeden
    Registered Users Posts: 17,912 ✭✭✭✭Eeden


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


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    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭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?


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    kissmequick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,065 ✭✭✭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.


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    Eeden
    Registered Users Posts: 17,912 ✭✭✭✭Eeden


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


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    kissmequick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,065 ✭✭✭kissmequick


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


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    Gatame
    Registered Users Posts: 321 ✭✭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..


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    FullblownRose
    Registered Users Posts: 1,501 ✭✭✭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'.


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    TreasureBin
    Registered Users Posts: 319 ✭✭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.


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