escape
/ɪˈskeɪp/
To get free; to free oneself; To break out of confinement; To avoid
- he/she/it
- escapes
- past participle
- escaped
Meanings
- 1
To get free; to free oneself
Nothing escapes you, does it!
Tatoeba · sundown · CC BY 2.0 FR
His name often escapes me.
Tatoeba · sundown · CC BY 2.0 FR
- 2
To break out of confinement
- 3
To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from
- 4
To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment
- 5
To avoid responsibilities and stresses for a time
- 6
To be forgotten byrare
- 7
To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered byrare
- 8
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 characterrare
- 9
To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keysrare
- 10
To grow wild, instead of in a cultivated arearare