To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
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.
To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
To get free; to free oneself.
To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
escape key
A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life.
A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.
A successful shot from a snooker position.
The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).
Something that has escaped; an escapee.
An apophyge.
To undergo, suffer, experience.
To use up or wear out (clothing etc.).
To examine or scrutinize (a number or series of things).
To travel from one end of something to the other.
To enact or recite the entire length of (something).
To progress to the next stage of something.
To reach an intended destination after passing through some process.