The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation. / Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation. / Something that has escaped; an escapee.

(intransitive) To get free; to free oneself. / (transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.

plural of escaper

A person who escapes. / (computing) A program or algorithm for escaping text.

plural of escapement

simple past tense and past participle of escape

Having escaped, especially from prison or another place of confinement.

(clocks, mechanics) The contrivance in a timepiece (winding wristwatch) which connects the train of wheel work with the pendulum or balance, giving to the latter the impulse by which it is kept in vibration.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of escape

plural of escape