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.