1. past tense and past participle of ‘scape’, meaning to escape or get away from danger or confinement
Usage: archaic or poetic

Examples

• The prisoner scaped from his cell in the dead of night.
• Many villagers scaped to the mountains when the army approached.
• She scaped the burning building just in time.
• The fox scaped the hunter’s trap by gnawing through the rope.
• Having scaped detection, the spy continued his mission.
• The ship scaped the rocky shore despite the storm.