Usually means: Avoidance or exit from confinement.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. Escapes, escapes: Merriam-Webster
  2. escapes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. escapes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Escape's, Escapes, escapes: Wordnik
  5. escapes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. escapes: Wiktionary
  7. escapes: Dictionary.com
  8. escapes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Escapes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. escapes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. escapes: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. escapes: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. escapes: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. escapes: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. escapes: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. escapes: Idioms

(Note: See escape as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (escape)

verb:  (intransitive) To get free; to free oneself.
verb:  (transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
verb:  (intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
verb:  (transitive) To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
verb:  (transitive, computing) 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.
verb:  (computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
noun:  The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
noun:  Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
noun:  Something that has escaped; an escapee.
noun:  A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life.
noun:  (computing) escape key
noun:  (programming) The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).
noun:  (snooker) A successful shot from a snooker position.
noun:  (manufacturing) A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.
noun:  (obsolete) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake, oversight, or transgression.
noun:  (obsolete) A sally.
noun:  (architecture) An apophyge.
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