To Escape

1. (intransitive) To get free; to free oneself.
2. (transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
3. (transitive) To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
4. (transitive, computing) 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.
5. (computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.

Usage notes

• In senses 2. and 3. this is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs

Synonyms

• break loose