Pursue and Scape

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Pursue verb - To go after or on the track of.

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Scape is an antonym for pursue.

Nearby Words: pursuit, pursuance, pursuing, pursuer

Scape verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.

Usage example: the queen has vowed that none of the traitors shall scape the gallows, be their station ever so high

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Pursue is an antonym for scape.

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Scape and Pursue. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/pursue/scape

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