とうぼう
Meanings
Noun
Verb (する, intransitive)
1. escape; flight; running away; elopement; fleeing
And forgetting that he was injured, he kicked off the ground with all his might and fled.
Pitch accent
と
うぼう
Used in vocabulary (7 in total)
desertion in the face of the enemy; deserting under enemy fire
fleeing the country
runaway; fugitive
Examples (8 in total)
He attempted to escape.
He defected to the Soviet Union in the 1950's.
As soon as he saw the policeman, he ran away.
The alternative possibilities were resistance and flight.
That is the reason why I chose the path of fleeing.
I was arrested for aiding in his escape.
The boy attempted an escape, but failed.
There will never be a better moment to escape than this.