To get free; to free oneself. Example: The factory was evacuated after toxic gases escaped from a pipe.
To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from. Example: He only got a fine and so escaped going to jail.
To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment. Example: Luckily, I escaped with only a fine.
To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by. Example: The name of the hotel escapes me at present.
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.
To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
Having escaped, especially from prison or another place of confinement. Example: People are being warned not to approach the escaped prisoner.
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