verb, -caped, -cap⋅ing, noun, adjective | 1. | to slip or get away, as from confinement or restraint; gain or regain liberty: to escape from jail. |
| 2. | to slip away from pursuit or peril; avoid capture, punishment, or any threatened evil. |
| 3. | to issue from a confining enclosure, as a fluid. |
| 4. | to slip away; fade: The words escaped from memory. |
| 5. | Botany. (of an originally cultivated plant) to grow wild. |
| 6. | (of a rocket, molecule, etc.) to achieve escape velocity. |
| 7. | to slip away from or elude (pursuers, captors, etc.): He escaped the police. |
| 8. | to succeed in avoiding (any threatened or possible danger or evil): She escaped capture. |
| 9. | to elude (one's memory, notice, search, etc.). |
| 10. | to fail to be noticed or recollected by (a person): Her reply escapes me. |
| 11. | (of a sound or utterance) to slip from or be expressed by (a person, one's lips, etc.) inadvertently. |
| 12. | an act or instance of escaping. |
| 13. | the fact of having escaped. |
| 14. | a means of escaping: We used the tunnel as an escape. |
| 15. | avoidance of reality: She reads mystery stories as an escape. |
| 16. | leakage, as of water or gas, from a pipe or storage container. |
| 17. | Botany. a plant that originated in cultivated stock and is now growing wild. |
| 18. | Physics, Rocketry. the act of achieving escape velocity. |
| 19. | Computers. a key (frequently labeled ESC) found on microcomputer keyboards and used for any of various functions, as to interrupt a command or move from one part of a program to another. |
| 20. | for or providing an escape: an escape route. |

escape es·cape (ĭ-skāp')
n.
A gradual effusion from an enclosure; a leakage.
A cardiological situation in which one pacemaker defaults or an atrioventricular conduction fails, and another pacemaker sets the heart's pace for one or more beats.