(v.) To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to
shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger.
(v.) To avoid the notice of; to pass unobserved by; to evade;
as, the fact escaped our attention.
(v. i.) To flee, and become secure from danger; -- often
followed by from or out of.
(v. i.) To get clear from danger or evil of any form; to be
passed without harm.
(v. i.) To get free from that which confines or holds; -- used
of persons or things; as, to escape from prison, from arrest, or from
slavery; gas escapes from the pipes; electricity escapes from its
conductors.
(n.) The act of fleeing from danger, of evading harm, or of
avoiding notice; deliverance from injury or any evil; flight; as, an
escape in battle; a narrow escape; also, the means of escape; as, a
fire escape.
(n.) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake; an
oversight; also, transgression.
(n.) A sally.
(n.) The unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of
a prisoner's departure from custody.
(n.) An apophyge.
(n.) Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid.
(n.) Leakage or loss of currents from the conducting wires,
caused by defective insulation.
