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escapar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • depart verb To leave a place, especially to begin a journey.
  • escape verb To get free from confinement, danger, or an unpleasant situation.
  • leak noun A crack or hole that lets liquid or gas escape or get in when it shouldn't.

Senses

escapar is used for these senses in English:

  • depart (transitive) To go away from; to leave.
  • escape (intransitive) To get free; to free oneself.
  • escape (transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
  • escape (intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
  • escape (transitive) To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
  • escape (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.
  • escape (computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
  • leak (transitive) To allow fluid or gas to pass through an opening that should be sealed.

depart — full definition

  1. verb To leave a place, especially to begin a journey.
  2. verb To differ from or move away from a plan, rule, or usual way of doing something.

escape — full definition

  1. verb To get free from confinement, danger, or an unpleasant situation.
  2. verb To avoid something unpleasant, such as punishment or notice.
  3. noun The act of getting free from a dangerous, confining, or unwanted situation.

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