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The correct spelling is escapes.
How to pronounce escapes
noun
Say it like: Esc-ape-s
The correct spelling is escapes. The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation. For example: "The prisoners made their escape by digging a tunnel."
Usage Examples
“The prisoners made their escape by digging a tunnel.”
“You forgot to insert an escape in the datastream.”
“The factory was evacuated after toxic gases escaped from a pipe.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
- 2.Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
- 3.Something that has escaped; an escapee.
- 4.A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life.
- 5.Escape key
verb
- 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.
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