escape, flee, shirk, evade, set free
逃 centers on getting away from something undesirable: escaping danger, fleeing a place, shirking responsibility, evading capture, or setting someone free.
逃 combines 辶 (movement) with 兆, which likely contributes the sound and may suggest a sign or omen, giving the idea of moving away from a bad sign.
The movement radical 辶 wraps around 兆, like a person slipping away at the first sign of trouble. Picture someone fleeing down a road when they see a bad omen.
For トウ, imagine a toe caught in a trap, and you must escape by pulling your toe free: toe -> トウ, and you flee to safety.
to run away; to flee; to get away (e.g. from danger); to escape; to break out; to leave (e.g. one's spouse); to take cover
overlooking
to miss (e.g. a chance); to lose; to let get away
escaping; evading
escape; flight; running away; elopement; fleeing
flight; desertion; escape
to set free; to let go; to release
to escape
escape; evasion; flight
to miss; to overlook; to fail to notice
to run away; to flee; to make off; to take to one's heels; to escape
(place of) refuge; escape; exit; way out; shelter; hiding place
way out; means to escape; escape route
hit-and-run (causing personal injury)
evasion; excuse; subterfuge; runaround
making off with (something); absconding
running off in the night (to leave one's old life behind, e.g. to get away from debt); moonlight flit; skipping town overnight; upping and leaving under the cover of darkness; midnight vanishing act
to make good one's escape; to get away; to outrun
to take refuge in; to succeed in running away
to run around trying to escape; to run from place to place