If so, and they could not wait out the migration, then the raft on the river might mean escape.

Did he have some idea that that meant escape, or was he mad?

I don't mean escape by dying and going to heaven, although that interpretation certainly is valid for those who hold it.

"You mean, a false sense of closure, and escape."

The place had been a refuge, a healing, and ever since then a barber shop had meant escape.

To the Editor: Going away to summer camp has always meant escape to children.

His walking away meant escape would be folly.

If that meant escape, the idea seemed preposterous.

He tried to judge the size of the lecture hall, looking for a red light that could mean escape.

Escape from the cell did not mean escape from the prison.