Definitions
1.verbTo get free; to free oneself."The factory was evacuated after toxic gases escaped from a pipe."
2.verbTo avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from."He only got a fine and so escaped going to jail."
3.verbTo avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment."Luckily, I escaped with only a fine."
4.verbTo elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by."The name of the hotel escapes me at present."
5.verbTo 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."Brion escaped the double quote character on Windows by adding a second double quote within the literal."
6.verbTo halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
7.nounThe act of one who escapes; an escape.
8.nounThat which escapes or leaks out; an emission.