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escaping

The correct spelling is escaping.

How to pronounce escaping

verb

IPA: /əsˈkeɪpɪŋ/

Say it like: Esc-api-ng

The correct spelling is escaping. To get free; to free oneself. For example: "The factory was evacuated after toxic gases escaped from a pipe."

Usage Examples

The factory was evacuated after toxic gases escaped from a pipe.

He only got a fine and so escaped going to jail.

Luckily, I escaped with only a fine.

Meanings

verb

  1. 1.To get free; to free oneself.
  2. 2.To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
  3. 3.To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
  4. 4.To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
  5. 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.

noun

  1. 1.The act of one who escapes; an escape.
  2. 2.That which escapes or leaks out; an emission.

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