escaped
v.v. to get away from a place where you were held or trapped, like a prison or a dangerous situation. It can also mean avoiding something bad that was about to happen to you.
v. to break free from confinement, control, or a dangerous situation; to succeed in avoiding an unpleasant or disastrous outcome. Intransitive when describing the act of fleeing, but transitive when describing the avoidance of a specific fate.
The bird escaped from its cage and flew away.
The hikers narrowly escaped the forest fire by driving to the lake before the roads closed.
While the protagonist physically escaped the prison walls, the narrative suggests he could never truly flee the psychological trauma of his long years in solitary confinement.
Often takes the preposition 'from' when referring to a physical location or source of confinement.
he escaped from the deathhe escaped deathWhen 'escape' means to avoid a specific fate or result, it is transitive and does not take the preposition 'from'.