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▸ 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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