intransitive verb. To break loose from confinement; get free.

intransitive verb. To issue from confinement or enclosure; leak or seep out.

intransitive verb. To avoid a serious or unwanted outcome.

intransitive verb. To become established in the wild. Used of a plant or animal.

intransitive verb. To interrupt a command, exit a program, or change levels within a program by using a key, combination of keys, or key sequence.

intransitive verb. To succeed in avoiding.

intransitive verb. To break loose from; get free of.

intransitive verb. To be outside the memory or understanding of; fail to be remembered or understood by.

intransitive verb. To issue involuntarily from.

noun. The act or an instance of escaping.

noun. A means of escaping.

noun. A means of obtaining temporary freedom from worry, care, or unpleasantness.

noun. A gradual effusion from an enclosure; a leakage.

noun. A cultivated plant or a domesticated or confined animal that has become established in the wild.

noun. A key used especially to interrupt a command, exit a program, or change levels within a program.

noun. Flight to shun danger, injury, or restraint; the act of fleeing from danger or custody.

noun. The condition of being passed by without receiving injury when danger threatens; avoidance of or preservation from some harm or injury: as, escape from contagion, or from bankruptcy.

noun. In law, the regaining of liberty or transcending the limits of confinement, without due course of law, by a person in custody of the law.

noun. A means of flight; that by which danger or injury may be avoided, or liberty regained: as, a fire-escape.

noun. Excuse; subterfuge; evasion.

noun. That which escapes attention; an oversight; a mistake.

noun. An escapade; a wild or irregular action.

noun. In botany, a plant which has escaped from cultivation, and become self-established, more or less permanently, in fields or by roadsides.

noun. Leakage or loss, as of gas, or of a current of electricity in a telegraph or electric-light circuit by reason of imperfect insulation; also, in electricity, a shunt or derived current.

noun. In architecture, the curved part of the shaft of a column where it springs out of the base; the apophyge. See cut under column.

noun. The outlet or gate in an irrigation or other hydraulic work by which water may be permitted to escape from the canal, either automatically or under direct control.

To slip or flee away; succeed in evading or avoiding danger or injury; get away from threatened harm: as, he escaped scot-free.

To free or succeed in freeing one's self from custody or restraint; gain or regain liberty.

Synonyms To abscond, decamp, steal away, break loose, break away.

To succeed in evading, avoiding, or eluding; be unnoticed, uninjured, or unaffected by; evade; elude: as, the fact escaped his attention; to escape danger or a contagious disease; to escape death.

transitive verb. To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from.

transitive verb. To avoid the notice of; to pass unobserved by; to evade.

intransitive verb. To flee, and become secure from danger; -- often followed by from or out of.

intransitive verb. To get clear from danger or evil of any form; to be passed without harm.

intransitive verb. To get free from that which confines or holds; -- used of persons or things

noun. The act of fleeing from danger, of evading harm, or of avoiding notice; deliverance from injury or any evil; flight; ; also, the means of escape.

noun. That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake; an oversight; also, transgression.

noun. A sally.

noun. The unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoner's departure from custody.

noun. A plant which has escaped from cultivation.

noun. An apophyge.

noun. Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid.

noun. Leakage or loss of currents from the conducting wires, caused by defective insulation.

noun. a pipe for carrying away steam that escapes through a safety valve.

noun. a relief valve; a safety valve. See under Relief, and Safety.

noun. the wheel of an escapement.

verb. To get free, to free oneself.

verb. To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.

verb. To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.

verb. To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.

"This escape is a perfect example why I could never take the show that seriously."

issue  leak  leakage  outflow  outlet  

escape artist  escape character  escape clause  escape literature  escape pod  

agency  avoid  avoidance  break loose  come forth  

Cape  Snape  agape  ape  cape  

action  adventure  attack  capture  danger  

abandonment  abscond  alienation  apophyge  autism  

escaped  escapees  escapes  escaping  scaped