- to slip or get away, as from confinement or restraint; gain or regain liberty: to escape from jail.
- to slip away from pursuit or peril; avoid capture, punishment, or any threatened evil.
- to issue from a confining enclosure, as a fluid.
- to slip away; fade: The words escaped from memory.
- (of an originally cultivated plant) to grow wild.
- (of a rocket, molecule, etc.) to achieve escape velocity.
- to slip away from or elude (pursuers, captors, etc.): He escaped the police.
- to succeed in avoiding (any threatened or possible danger or evil): She escaped capture.
- to elude (one's memory, notice, search, etc.).
- to fail to be noticed or recollected by (a person): Her reply escapes me.
- (of a sound or utterance) to slip from or be expressed by (a person, one's lips, etc.) inadvertently.
- an act or instance of escaping.
- the fact of having escaped.
- a means of escaping: We used the tunnel as an escape.
- avoidance of reality: She reads mystery stories as an escape.
- leakage, as of water or gas, from a pipe or storage container.
- a plant that originated in cultivated stock and is now growing wild.
- the act of achieving escape velocity.
- Escape key.
- for or providing an escape: an escape route.
- to get away or break free from (confinements, captors, etc)
- to manage to avoid (imminent danger, punishment, evil, etc)
- (of gases, liquids, etc) to issue gradually, as from a crack or fissure; seep; leak
- to elude; be forgotten by
- to be articulated inadvertently or involuntarily
- (of cultivated plants) to grow wild
- the act of escaping or state of having escaped
- avoidance of injury, harm, etc
- a means or way of escape
- (as modifier)
- a means of distraction or relief, esp from reality or boredom
- a gradual outflow; leakage; seepage
- a valve that releases air, steam, etc, above a certain pressure; relief valve or safety valve
- a plant that was originally cultivated but is now growing wild
