escape

Definitions

• (intransitive) To get free; to free oneself.
• (transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
• (intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
• (transitive) To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
• (transitive) 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.
• (computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.