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      escapes
      noun
      The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
      A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life.
      Something that has escaped; an escapee.
      (computing) escape key
      (programming) The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).
      (snooker) A successful shot from a snooker position.
      (manufacturing) A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.
      (architecture) An apophyge.
      (botany) A cultivated plant found growing as though wild, dispersed by some agency.
      Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
      (obsolete) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake, oversight, or transgression.
      (obsolete) A sally.
      verb
      (intransitive) To get free; to free oneself.
      (transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
      (intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
      (transitive) To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
      (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.
      (computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
      Roots
      cappacape- · Latin · cloak, cape
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      The word escapes breaks down into one root of Latin origin: the root cape-, from Latin cappa (“cloak, cape”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.

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