escape

Plural: escapes

Noun

• the act of escaping physically
  • "he made his escape from the mental hospital"
  • "the canary escaped from its cage"
• an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy
  • "romantic novels were her escape from the stress of daily life"
• nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do
  • "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"
• a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild
• the discharge of a fluid from some container
  • "they tried to stop the escape of gas from the damaged pipe"
• a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level
• The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
• 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.
• escape key
• The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).
• A successful shot from a snooker position.
• A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.
• That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake, oversight, or transgression.
• A sally.
• An apophyge.
• A cultivated plant found growing as though wild, dispersed by some agency.

Verb

Verb Forms: escaped, escaping, escapes

• To break free from confinement or control; to get away.
• run away from confinement
  • "The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison"
• fail to experience
• escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action
• be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by
• remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion
  • "We escaped to our summer house for a few days"
• flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
  • "The burglars escaped before the police showed up"
• issue or leak, as from a small opening
  • "Gas escaped into the bedroom"
• To get free; to free oneself.
• To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
• To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
• To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
• To 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.
• To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.

Examples

• Brion escaped the double quote character on Windows by adding a second double quote within the literal.
• He managed to ESCAPE a tile drought by drawing the ’Q’ and a ’U’ simultaneously.
• He only got a fine and so escaped going to jail.
• Luckily, I escaped with only a fine.
• The children climbed out of the window to escape the fire.
• The detective examined the crime scene, but one clue escaped his notice.
• The factory was evacuated after toxic gases escaped from a pipe.
• The name of the hotel escapes me at present.
• The prisoners escaped by jumping over a wall.
• The prisoners made their escape by digging a tunnel.
• When using the "bash" shell, you can escape the ampersand character with a backslash.
• You forgot to insert an escape in the datastream.

Synonyms

break away, break loose, bunk, dodging, elude, escape cock, escape valve, escapism, evasion, flight, fly the coop, get away, get by, get off, get out, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, leak, leakage, miss, outflow, relief valve, run, run away, safety valve, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail, take it on the lam

Anagrams of escape