escape

(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, computing) 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.