Usually means: Breaking free from confinement, restriction.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. Escape, escape: Merriam-Webster
  2. escape: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. escape: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. escape: Collins English Dictionary
  5. escape: Vocabulary.com
  6. Escape, escape: Wordnik
  7. escape: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. escape: Wiktionary
  9. escape: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. escape: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Escape (British TV series), Escape (Enrique Iglesias song), Escape (Jessop and Palmer book), Escape (Journey album), Escape (McMillan book), Escape (Metallica song), Escape (Nine Lashes album), Escape (Rupert Holmes song), Escape (Sirius XM), Escape (TV network), Escape (The Pina Colada Song), Escape (Whodini album), Escape (film), Escape (magazine), Escape (novel), Escape (play), Escape (radio program), Escape (video game), Escape, Escape, The Escape (Animorphs), The Escape (Applegate novel), The Escape (Baldacci novel), The Escape (band), The Escape: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Escape: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. escape: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. escape: Rhymezone
  15. escape: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. escape: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. escape: FreeDictionary.org
  18. escape: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. escape: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. escape: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  21. escape: Infoplease Dictionary
  22. Escape (Enrique Iglesias album): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  23. escape: Dictionary.com
  24. escape: Online Etymology Dictionary
  25. escape: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  26. escape: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. escape: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. Escape (disambiguation), Escape (song), escape: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ESCAPE, escape: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Escape (disambiguation), Escape (song), escape: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. escape: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Escape (disambiguation), Escape (song), escape: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. ESCAPE: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. escape: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. escape: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. escape: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Escape: Backgammon
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To get free; to free oneself.
verb:  (transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
verb:  (intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
verb:  (transitive) To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
verb:  (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.
verb:  (computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
noun:  The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
noun:  Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
noun:  Something that has escaped; an escapee.
noun:  A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life.
noun:  (computing) escape key
noun:  (programming) The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).
noun:  (snooker) A successful shot from a snooker position.
noun:  (manufacturing) A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.
noun:  (obsolete) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake, oversight, or transgression.
noun:  (obsolete) A sally.
noun:  (architecture) An apophyge.

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