<p><strong>Verb (used without object):</strong></p><ul><li>to slip or get away, as from confinement or restraint; gain or regain liberty</li><li>to slip away from pursuit or peril; avoid capture, punishment, or any threatened evil</li><li>to issue from a confining enclosure, as a fluid</li><li>to slip away; fade</li><li>(of an originally cultivated plant) to grow wild</li><li>(of a rocket, molecule, etc.) to achieve escape velocity</li></ul><p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>an act or instance of escaping</li><li>the fact of having escaped</li><li>a means of escaping</li><li>avoidance of reality</li><li>leakage, as of water or gas, from a pipe or storage container</li><li>a plant that originated in cultivated stock and is now growing wild</li><li>the act of achieving escape velocity</li><li>(usually initial capital letter) Escape key</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective:</strong></p><ul><li>for or providing an escape</li></ul>