Escape
Escape noun - The act or an instance of getting free from danger or confinement.
Maintenance
Maintenance noun - The act or activity of keeping something in an existing and usually satisfactory condition.
Escape is an antonym for maintenance.
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- Jefferson is trapped in a maintenance shaft slowly draining of oxygen while busy fighting off possessed Ood, in order to buy time for Rose and the other workers to escape.
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In "3 on a Match", one items the maintenance man finds in the escape pod is a copy of Metal Hurlant magazine.
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Zulema's escape plan involves breaking through a wall into a sewage/maintenance area, before crawling through a long, narrow tunnel to freedom.
Source: Series / Locked Up
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