Word Finder - escape

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The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.

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The prisoners made their escape by digging a tunnel.

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Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.

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Something that has escaped; an escapee.

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A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life.

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Escape key

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The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).

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You forgot to insert an escape in the datastream.

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A successful shot from a snooker position.

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A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.

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That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake, oversight, or transgression.

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A sally.

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An apophyge.

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To get free; to free oneself.

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The factory was evacuated after toxic gases escaped from a pipe.

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To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.

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

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To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.

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Luckily, I escaped with only a fine.

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To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.

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The name of the hotel escapes me at present.

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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.

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Brion escaped the double quote character on Windows by adding a second double quote within the literal.

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To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.

He came very quietly and secretly, to escape the soldiers.

Her heart attempted a painful escape through her throat.

Had he married her to escape his family?

The sand stretched out before her, their tracks pointing to the escape route.

To escape the war?

There seemed to be no way to escape the anger of this furious man.

You cannot escape the bears that way.

She took the opportunity to escape, darting by Dustin to her room.

Escape was hampered by the fact that the window wouldn't open.

He pushed the thought of his slain brother away but couldn't escape the lingering sense of unease.

He called a portal and left, needing to escape then realizing the emotions he didn't want to feel went with him.

Lori could have kept the baby, the farm and the money, but she chose to "escape" instead.

If she saw an escape route, she was gone.

I've come to offer you the chance to escape, so long as you take me to a … to a spaceship.

Those asking it didn't offer a means for the world to escape from war.

He stood in the hallway smiling, his predatory look assuring her he had no plans of letting his dinner escape him.

Nicholas could already see not far in front of him the wood where the wolf would certainly escape should she reach it.

For decades, teams of three hardy fools had tried to knock each other senseless with high pressure fire hoses, while the spectators tried to escape the cross fire.

I planned on going to Seychelles to escape the east coast cold, but Gio said being invited here was an honor.

The possibility of escape was nil so secure was our twelve foot square cell.

You helped me escape demons through that awful underworld forest.

But she didn't think any of them could escape, or they would have.

He knew what a shock he would inflict on his father and mother by the news of this loss, he knew what a relief it would be to escape it all, and felt that Dolokhov knew that he could save him from all this shame and sorrow, but wanted now to play with him as a cat does with a mouse.

They had to hold their noses and put their horses to a trot to escape from the poisoned atmosphere of these latrines.

You won't escape!--from that moment this conversation began, contrary to all the laws of logic and contrary to them because quite different subjects were talked about at one and the same time.

She shed it and her boots quickly, wanting to escape to her room before her father cornered her.

It was a pleasant escape from the dust and noise of the building going on above them.

I almost died a million times over, and if I didn't know how to enable the shields on the escape pod, I would have burned up in the atmosphere, and if that didn't kill me, then hitting the planet-- He held up a hand, planting it across her mouth when she refused to stop.

Everyone stood up respectfully when the Military Governor, having stayed about half an hour alone with the dying man, passed out, slightly acknowledging their bows and trying to escape as quickly as possible from the glances fixed on him by the doctors, clergy, and relatives of the family.

Patsy Boyd apparently lifted a set of keys from a worker in the lodgings where she and Martha were temporarily quartered and made her escape in a twenty-year old Buick.

So, if we had the wings, and could escape the Gargoyles, we might fly to that rock and be saved.

As I talked, happy thoughts fluttered up out of my words that might perhaps have struggled in vain to escape my fingers.

She was glad to find escape from them in practical activity.

Whether he was trying to escape or attack Alex was unclear, but Alex reached the door at the same time the man did.

Nothing she could use to escape.

Not letting the abbe and Pierre escape, Anna Pavlovna, the more conveniently to keep them under observation, brought them into the larger circle.

It pleased me doubly; to show off my fiancée and escape the rush of August in New York.

Gabe hated her yet couldn't escape the memory of the compassion and spirit that made him take a stranger to bed last night.

But above all harvest as early as possible, if you would escape frosts and have a fair and salable crop; you may save much loss by this means.

Maybe there's some way to have both; retain our privacy and have an escape identity in case the need ever arises.

The woman was far enough ahead she should be able to escape while he distracted the creature.

But escape wasn't that simple.

No matter, we need to escape.

As if she needed another reason to want to escape!

Why didn't you simply let him escape?

You knew enough to escape.

I guess she tried to escape and didn't get far.

Toby darted into the jungle, knowing they had little time, and that he had to find his human before anything else bad happened to her.  He didn't know where the demon with her wanted to take her, but he knew where anyone leaving the underworld would go to escape.

The others can't escape.

Jenn, where do we go if we escape?