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ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Noun
Pronunciation: /ɪˈskeɪp/

Definition 1:
• The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
Example: The prisoners made their escape by digging a tunnel.
Labels: countable, uncountable

Definition 2:
• Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
Labels: countable, uncountable

Definition 3:
• Something that has escaped; an escapee.
Labels: countable, uncountable

Definition 4:
• A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life.
Labels: countable, uncountable

Definition 5:
• escape key
Labels: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences, countable, uncountable

Definition 6:
• The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).
Example: You forgot to insert an escape in the datastream.
Labels: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, programming, sciences, countable, uncountable

Definition 7:
• A successful shot from a snooker position.
Labels: ball-games, games, hobbies, lifestyle, snooker, sports, countable, uncountable

Definition 8:
• A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.
Labels: business, manufacturing, countable, uncountable

Definition 9:
• That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake, oversight, or transgression.
Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable

Definition 10:
• A sally.
Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable

Definition 11:
• An apophyge.
Labels: architecture, countable, uncountable

Definition 12:
• A cultivated plant found growing as though wild, dispersed by some agency.
Labels: biology, botany, natural-sciences, countable, uncountable
Verb
Pronunciation: /ɪˈskeɪp/

Definition 1:
• To get free; to free oneself.
Example: The prisoners escaped by jumping over a wall.
Example: The factory was evacuated after toxic gases escaped from a pipe.
Labels: intransitive

Definition 2:
• To break out of confinement.
Example: The prisoners escaped their cell.
Labels: transitive

Definition 3:
• To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
Example: He only got a fine and so escaped going to jail.
Example: The children climbed out of the window to escape the fire.
Example: There's no escaping the fact that the house needs painting.
Labels: transitive

Definition 4:
• To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
Example: Luckily, I escaped with only a fine.
Labels: intransitive

Definition 5:
• To avoid responsibilities and stresses for a time.
Example: Work was stressful, and I needed to escape.
Labels: intransitive

Definition 6:
• To be forgotten by.
Example: I used to know the name of the capital of France, but it escapes me now.
Labels: transitive

Definition 7:
• To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
Example: The name of the hotel escapes me at present.
Example: The detective examined the crime scene, but one clue escaped his notice.
Labels: transitive

Definition 8:
• 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: When using the "bash" shell, you can escape the ampersand character with a backslash.
Example: Brion escaped the double quote character on Windows by adding a second double quote within the literal.
Labels: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences, transitive

Definition 9:
• To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
Labels: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

Definition 10:
• To grow wild, instead of in a cultivated area.
Example: You have to be careful planting mint, or it will escape and take over your yard.
Labels: agriculture, business, horticulture, lifestyle, intransitive, of a plant

Definition 11:
• To express, especially involuntarily.
Example: I tried to look disappointed, but a smile escaped me.
Labels: transitive

Source and attribution
Wiktionary contributors, via Kaikki/Wiktextract. Derived from Wiktionary; CC BY-SA and GFDL terms apply. Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/escape