escape

To get free; to free oneself.

“The prisoners escaped by jumping over a wall.”

“The factory was evacuated after toxic gases escaped from a pipe.”

To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.

“He only got a fine and so escaped going to jail.”

“The children climbed out of the window to escape the fire.”

To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.

“Luckily, I escaped with only a fine.”

To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.

“The name of the hotel escapes me at present.”

computingTo cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted literally, instead of with any special meaning it would usually have in the same context, often by prefixing with another character.

“When using the "bash" shell, you can escape the ampersand character with a backslash.”

“Brion escaped the double quote character on Windows by adding a second double quote within the literal.”

computingTo halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.

Fail to experience

“Fortunately, I missed the hurricane”

Escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action

“She gets away with murder!”

“I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities”

Be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by

“What you are seeing in him eludes me”

Remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion

“We escaped to our summer house for a few days”

“The president of the company never manages to get away during the summer”

Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run

“If you see this man, run!”

“The burglars escaped before the police showed up”

Issue or leak, as from a small opening

“Gas escaped into the bedroom”

The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.

“The prisoners made their escape by digging a tunnel.”

Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.

Something that has escaped; an escapee.

A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life.

computingEscape key

programmingThe text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).

“You forgot to insert an escape in the datastream.”

snookerA successful shot from a snooker position.

manufacturingA defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.

architectureAn apophyge.

The act of escaping physically

“he made his escape from the mental hospital”

“the canary escaped from its cage”

“his flight was an indication of his guilt”

An inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy

“romantic novels were her escape from the stress of daily life”

“his alcohol problem was a form of escapism”

Nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do

“his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible”

“that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive”

An avoidance of danger or difficulty

“that was a narrow escape”

A means or way of escaping

“hard work was his escape from worry”

“they installed a second hatch as an escape”

“their escape route”