逃とう避ひ

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

escape; evasion; flight

A Sino-Japanese noun and intransitive する verb for getting away from, or avoiding, something. Often used for abstract or psychological avoidance, as in 現実逃避 and 責任逃避, but it can also refer more formally to flight from danger or pressure.

• つらい現げん実じつから逃とう避ひしたくなることもある。

  Sometimes you feel like escaping from harsh reality.

• 彼かれの沈ちん黙もくは、責せき任にん逃とう避ひと受うけ取とられた。

  His silence was taken as an evasion of responsibility.

• 危き険けんからの逃とう避ひは、本ほん能のう的てきな反はん応のうだ。

  Flight from danger is an instinctive reaction.