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 take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
To pull something sharply; to pull something out
To pull or twitch sharply.
To remove feathers from a bird.
To play a string instrument pizzicato.
To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.
Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
An instance of plucking or pulling sharply.
Cheap wine.