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To get free; to free oneself.
example
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.
example
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.
example
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.