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