Escape

Quick meaning: Escape is a verb meaning (intransitive) To get free; to free oneself.

Meaning

(intransitive) To get free; to free oneself.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
2. (intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
3. (transitive) To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
4. (computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
5. The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
6. Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
7. (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.

Example Sentences

sailors that escaped the wreck

The prisoners escaped by jumping over a wall.

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

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

Word Forms

• escapes
• escaping
• escaped

Synonyms for escape

Depending on context, synonyms include elude, miss, flight, evasion, leak, get out.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include get away, get out, escapism, elude, evasion, dodging.

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