(intransitive) To get free; to free oneself. / (transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.

The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation. / Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation. / Something that has escaped; an escapee.

simple past tense and past participle of escape

Having escaped, especially from prison or another place of confinement.

(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.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of escape

plural of escape

plural of escapement

A person who escapes. / (computing) A program or algorithm for escaping text.

plural of escaper