escape

Verb

1. (intransitive) To get free; to free oneself.
2. (transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
3. (intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
4. (transitive) To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
5. (transitive) 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.
6. To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.

Noun

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

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɪˈskeɪp/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: escapen

In summary

From Middle English escapen, from Anglo-Norman and Old Northern French escaper ( = Old French eschaper, modern French échapper), from Vulgar Latin *excappāre (“to escape a garment, get out of one's clothing”, literally “to free oneself from one's cape”), from Latin ex- (“out”) + Late Latin cappa (“cape, cloak”). Cognate with escapade. Also doublet of scape.

Synonyms

flee

run away

flight

✈️

avoid

evade

get away

elude

running away

run

evasion

abscond

leave

fly

✈️

rescue

retreat

miss

get free

get off

recover

getaway

leakage

lam

leak

slip away

deliverance

leak out

break loose

break away

desert

🏜️

fleeing

get out

liberation

dodge

take flight

shirk

shun

saved

fly the coop

bunk

disappear

elopement

slip out

ooze

survive

outflow

release

come out

break out

escape valve

hurry

Translations

escapar

échapper

s’échapper

scappare

Flucht

entkommen

fliehen

fuggire

fuir

évasion

escaparse

huir

fuga

✈️

fuite

sfuggire

Sentences

You will never be able to escape from your heart .

These systems may provide an option to hide the escape sequences .

She is driven to escape after witnessing another mackerel being prepared as food .

Sandor and Arya escape .