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A means of escaping.
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A means of obtaining temporary freedom from worry, care, or unpleasantness: Television is my escape from worry.
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Botany A plant that has become established away from the area of cultivation.
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Computer Science A key, combination of keys, or key sequence, used especially to interrupt a command, exit a program, or change levels within a program.
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verb-intransitive
Botany To become established in the wild. Used of a cultivated species.
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Computer Science To interrupt a command, exit a program, or change levels within a program by using a key, combination of keys, or key sequence.
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To avoid a serious or unwanted outcome: escaped from the accident with their lives.
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To break loose from confinement; get free: escape from jail.
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To issue from confinement or an enclosure; leak or seep out: Gas was escaping from the vent.
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verb-transitive
To issue involuntarily from: A sigh escaped my lips.
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To succeed in avoiding: The thief escaped punishment.
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verb
To get away (as by flight).
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To issue from confinement.
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To run wild from cultivation.
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To avoid a threatening evil.
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To get free of break away from.
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adjective
Providing a means of escape.
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Providing a means of evading a regulation, claim, or commitment.
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