Capture and Escaping

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Capture verb - To receive as return for effort.

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Escaping is an antonym for capture.

Nearby Words: captive, captured, captor, capturing

Definitions of Capture not found.

Capture is an antonym for escaping in break away from topic.

Nearby Words: escape, escaped

When Yuri use Desmond Gate to wreck his fleet, he choose to try to capture Yuri instead of escaping, since he thinks Ursula will not accept him otherwise.

Source: Videogame / Infinite Space
Though, besides the aforementioned, she might have also killed herself as a way of escaping potential capture.

Source: Fan Fic / Gensokyo 20XX
The monkey sees an escaping Marion trying to hide in a basket, jumps on the basket and screeches, calling the German agents to capture her.

Source: Film / Raiders of the Lost Ark

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