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escaped

/ɪˈskeɪpt/ · verb

Meaning

  1. To get free; to free oneself.
  2. To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
  3. To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
  4. To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
  5. 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.
  6. To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
  7. Having escaped, especially from prison or another place of confinement.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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