escape: Meaning and Definition of

es•cape

1. to slip or get away, as from confinement or restraint; gain or regain liberty: to escape from jail.
2. to slip away from pursuit or peril; avoid capture, punishment, or any threatened evil.
3. to issue from a confining enclosure, as a fluid.
4. to slip away; fade: The words escaped from memory.
5. (of an originally cultivated plant) to grow wild.
6. (of a rocket, molecule, etc.) to achieve escape velocity.

1. to slip away from or elude (pursuers, captors, etc.): He escaped the police.
2. to succeed in avoiding (any threatened or possible danger or evil): She escaped capture.
3. to elude (one's memory, notice, search, etc.).
4. to fail to be noticed or recollected by (a person): Her reply escapes me.
5. (of a sound or utterance) to slip from or be expressed by (a person, one's lips, etc.) inadvertently.

1. an act or instance of escaping.
2. the fact of having escaped.
3. a means of escaping: We used the tunnel as an escape.
4. avoidance of reality: She reads mystery stories as an escape.
5. leakage, as of water or gas, from a pipe or storage container.
6. a plant that originated in cultivated stock and is now growing wild.
7. the act of achieving escape velocity.
8. a key (frequently labeled ESC) found on microcomputer keyboards and used for any of various functions, as to interrupt a command or move from one part of a program to another.

1. for or providing an escape: an escape route.