escape: meaning and definitions

To break loose from confinement; get free: escape from jail.

To issue from confinement or an enclosure; leak or seep out: Gas was escaping from the vent.

To avoid a serious or unwanted outcome: escaped from the accident with their lives.

Botany To become established in the wild. Used of a cultivated species.

Computer Science To interrupt a command, exit a program, or change levels within a program by using a key, combination of keys, or key sequence.

To succeed in avoiding: The thief escaped punishment.

To break loose from; get free of: The spacecraft escaped Earth's gravitational field.

To elude the memory or comprehension of: Her name escapes me. The book's significance escaped him.

To issue involuntarily from: A sigh escaped my lips.

The act or an instance of escaping.

A means of escaping.

A means of obtaining temporary freedom from worry, care, or unpleasantness: Television is my escape from worry.

A gradual effusion from an enclosure; a leakage.

Botany A plant that has become established away from the area of cultivation.

Computer Science A key, combination of keys, or key sequence, used especially to interrupt a command, exit a program, or change levels within a program.