Definition of “escape”
verb:
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To get free, to free oneself.
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To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
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To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
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To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
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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.
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To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
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noun:
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The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
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Escape key (A key on most modern computer keyboards, sometimes abbreviated Esc, and typically programmed to cancel some current operation.).
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The ASCII character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal.).
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A successful shot from a snooker position.
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