escape
• verb 1 break free from confinement or control. 2 elude or get free from (someone). 3 succeed in eluding (something dangerous or undesirable). 4 fail to be noticed or remembered by. • noun 1 an act of escaping. 2 a means of escaping. 3 (also escape key) Computing a key which interrupts the current operation or converts subsequent characters to a control sequence. — DERIVATIVES escapable adjective escapee noun escaper noun. — ORIGIN Old French eschaper, from Latin ex- ‘out’ + cappa ‘cloak’.
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