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escape

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Synonyms: scape, escapee, -scape, escap, e-scape

Antonyms: scape, escapee, -scape, escap, e-scape

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Verb

  1. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To get free; to free oneself.
  2. {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[break out]] of [[confinement]].
  3. {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[avoid]] (any unpleasant person or thing); to [[elude]], get away from.
  4. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
  5. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To avoid responsibilities and stresses for a time.
  6. {{lb|en|transitive}} To be forgotten by.
  7. {{lb|en|transitive}} To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
  8. {{lb|en|transitive|computing}} 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.
  9. {{lb|en|computing}} To [[halt]] a [[program]] or [[command]] by pressing a [[key]] (such as the "Esc" key) or [[combination]] of keys.
  10. {{lb|en|intransitive|agriculture|gardening|of a plant}} To grow wild, instead of in a cultivated area.
  11. {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[express]], especially involuntarily.

Noun

  1. The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
  2. [[leakage|Leakage]] or [[outflow]], as of [[steam]] or a [[liquid]], or an [[electric current]] through [[defective]] [[insulation]].
  3. Something that has escaped; an [[escapee]].
  4. A [[holiday]], viewed as time away from the [[vicissitudes]] of life.
  5. {{lb|en|computing}} [[escape key]]
  6. {{lb|en|programming}} The [[text]] [[character]] represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B ([[hexadecimal]]).
  7. {{lb|en|snooker}} A successful shot from a [[snooker]] position.
  8. {{lb|en|manufacturing}} A [[defective]] product that is allowed to leave a [[manufacturing]] facility.
  9. {{lb|en|obsolete}} That which escapes attention or restraint; a [[mistake]], [[oversight]], or [[transgression]].
  10. {{lb|en|obsolete}} A [[sally]].
  11. {{lb|en|architecture}} An [[apophyge]].
  12. {{lb|en|botany}} A cultivated plant found growing as though wild, dispersed by some agency.

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