To place in escrow.

(countable) System of doctrines concerning final matters, such as death.

Someone who has become free through escaping imprisonment. / Someone who has escaped. / (botany) A plant that has escaped from cultivation.

Anything that escalates. / A motor-driven mechanical device consisting of a continuous loop of steps that automatically conveys people from one floor to another. / An upward or progressive course.

Abbreviation of especially.

an increase or rise, especially one to counteract a perceived discrepancy / a deliberate or premeditated increase in the violence or geographic scope of a conflict

(uncountable) A dish, commonly associated with French cuisine, consisting of edible snails. / (countable) A snail (often Helix pomatia) used in preparation of that dish.

(transitive, intransitive) To increase (something) in extent or intensity; to intensify or step up.

(astrophysics) The minimum speed needed to escape the gravitational field of a planet or other body.

(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.