Escape and Hole up

Escape

Escape verb - To get free from a dangerous or confining situation.

Hole up and escape are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Hole up" instead a verb "Escape".

Hole up

Hole up verb - To remain out of sight.
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Synonyms for Hole up

Escape and hole up are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Escape" instead a verb "Hole up".

Mutual synonyms

Both terms in one sentence

  • Manga / Banana Fish Ash manages to turn this to his advantage: he and a few men hole up in a building and let Foxx besiege them, giving the rest of his forces time to escape and regroup.
  • He's forced sober when they hole up in an abandoned government base to escape assassins.
  • Video Game / Counter-Strike The former usually has nigh-invulnerable zombies and forces players to hole up in buildings and last as long as possible (or escape an area), and the latter is the standard "needs a headshot" kill.
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