1. To break loose from confinement; get free. 2. Gas was escaping. 3. Ten prisoners had escaped. 4. To grow beyond a cultivated area. 5. To succeed in avoiding. 6. To break loose from; get free of. 7. Her name escapes me. The book's significance escaped him. 8. A sigh escaped my lips. 9. The act or an instance of escaping. 10. A means of escaping. 11. Television is my escape from worry. 12. A gradual effusion from an enclosure; a leakage. 13. A plant that has become established away from the area of cultivation. 14. A key used especially to interrupt a command, exit a program, or change levels within a program.
