Escape

Verb

 * 1)  To get free, to free oneself.
 * 2)  To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
 * 3)  To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
 * 4)  To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
 * 5)  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) The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
 * 2)  A key on most modern computer keyboards, sometimes abbreviated Esc, and typically programmed to cancel some current operation.
 * 3)  The ASCII character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal.)
 * 4)  A successful shot from a snooker position.

Adjectives for Escape
miraculous; precious; destitute; momentary; trivial; ignoble; impossible; marvelous; perilous; ultimate; hairbreadth; extraordinary; hair-raising; strong.

Verbs for Escape
aid—; allow—; assist in—; attribute—to; conceal—; conspire—; cut off—; desire—; despair of—; effect—; enable—; guard against—; hinder—; insure—; investigate —; permit—; prevent—; scorn—; shun—.

Adverbs for Escape
exultantly; miraculously; temporarily; narrowly; easily; resolutely; audaciously; incessantly; barely; momentarily; ignobly; marvelously; perilously; ultimately; extraordinarily; hair-raisingly.

Synonyms for Escape
flee, fly, evade, break, defect, avoid, elude, decamp, abscond.

Derived terms

 * escape artist
 * escape character
 * escape clause
 * escapee
 * escape literature
 * escapement
 * escape pod
 * escape route
 * escape sequence


 * escape velocity
 * escapism
 * escapist
 * escapologist
 * escapology
 * fire escape
 * lucky escape
 * make an escape

Thesaurus
abandonment, abscond, alienation, autism, autistic thinking, avenue, avoid, avoidance, avoidance mechanism, avoiding reaction, baffle, bail out, beg, blame-shifting, blow, blowhole, bolt, bow out, break, break away, break free, break jail, break loose, break out, breakout, bunk, channel, chute, circumvent, circumvention, clear out, compensation, cut and run, cut loose, cut out, debouch, decamp, decampment, decompensation, defense mechanism, deliverance, depart, departure, dereism, dereistic thinking, disappear, discharge, displacement, dissociation, distraction, ditch, diversion, dodge, dodging, door, double, drain, drainage, draining, duck, duck out, ducking, effluence, efflux, effluxion, egress, elope, elude, elusion, elusiveness, emanate, emotional insulation, emunctory, equivocation, escape into fantasy, escape mechanism, escape prison, escapism, eschewal, estuary, evacuation, evade, evasion, evasive action, evasiveness, exhaust, exit, exodus, fantasizing, fantasy, flee, flight, flit, floodgate, flume, fly, fly the coop, forbearance, forestalling, forestallment, get around, get away, get away from, get clear of, get free, get free of, get out, get out of, get quit of, get rid of, getaway, getting around, go on furlough, go on leave, going, hegira, isolation, issue, jailbreak, jink, jump, lam, leak, leakage, leaking, leave the scene, leaving, levant, liberation, loophole, make a getaway, make off, mosey, mystify, negativism, neutrality, nonintervention, noninvolvement, opening, out, outcome, outfall, outflow, outgate, outgo, outlet, outpouring, overcompensation, parting, passing, pore, port, prevention, projection, psychotaxis, puzzle, rationalization, recreation, refraining, release, relief, removal, resistance, retirement, retreat, run away, run off, runaround, sally port, scape, scram, seep, seepage, seeping, shake, shake off, shuffle out of, shunning, shunting off, shy, sidestep, sidestepping, sidetracking, skedaddle, skip, skirt, slip, slip away, slip off, slip out, slip the collar, sluice, sneak out, sociological adjustive reactions, spiracle, spout, stump, sublimation, substitution, take French leave, take leave, take off, tap, the runaround, throw off, vamoose, vanish, vent, ventage, venthole, vomitory, walkout, way out, weir, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking, withdrawal, zigzag

Etymology
and escaper: ( = Old French eschaper:, modern French échapper:), from  *excapare, from Latin ex-: + capio:.

Verb

 * Albanian:
 * American Sign Language: ,
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: ihes egin
 * Chinese:, 逃跑
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: eskapi
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:


 * German: entgehen
 * Greek: δραπετεύω
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kurdish: ,
 * Latin: fugio, evado
 * Norwegian: unnslippe, unnkomme
 * Portuguese:, ,   dar o fora
 * Romanian: a se elibera,
 * Russian: спасаться, спастись
 * Slovak: utiecť
 * Slovene: zbežati, pobegniti
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Albanian: shmangem
 * Armenian: խուսափել
 * Catalan: eludir, escapar
 * Dutch: ontsnappen aan,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: entgehen,
 * Greek:, γλιτώνω
 * Italian:
 * Kurdish:


 * Norwegian: unngå
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: a eluda
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: vyhnúť sa
 * Slovene: ubežati
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: undfly


 * Catalan: escapar
 * Dutch: er vanaf komen
 * Finnish:, ,
 * German: davonkommen
 * Greek: ξεφεύγω, γλιτώνω


 * Latin: fugio, evado
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:


 * Catalan: eludir
 * Finnish: jäädä huomaamatta, unohtua
 * Greek:, διαλανθάνω


 * Portuguese: iludir,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:


 * Swahili:


 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish: keskeyttää ohjelma


 * Greek:
 * Swahili:

Noun

 * American Sign Language: ,
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: fuita
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Greek:, , δραπέτευση
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: scăpare,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene: pobeg
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Dutch: escapetoets
 * Finnish: esc-näppäin
 * Portuguese:


 * Romanian: esc (tastă)
 * Swahili:


 * Finnish: esc-merkki


 * Swahili:

Anagrams

 * espace, peaces

Noun

 * 1)  The escape key

Noun

 * 1) escape
 * 2) leak
 * 3) exhaust pipe, tailpipe

Synonyms

 * tubo de escape
 * fuga

Related terms

 * escapar
 * escapatoria
 * escapada