escaped
Meaning of escaped
verb
- To get free; to free oneself.
The factory was evacuated after toxic gases escaped from a pipe.
- To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
He only got a fine and so escaped going to jail.
- To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
Luckily, I escaped with only a fine.
- To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
The name of the hotel escapes me at present.
- 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.
Brion escaped the double quote character on Windows by adding a second double quote within the literal.
- To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
- Having escaped, especially from prison or another place of confinement.
People are being warned not to approach the escaped prisoner.
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Hyphenation of escaped
es-caped
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- escaped is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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Words that rhyme with escaped
aped, caped, landscaped, preescaped, relandscaped, scaped, townscaped, uncaped, unescaped, beleaped, beneaped, heaped, leaped, neaped, outleaped, overheaped, overleaped, reaped, sneaped, threaped, unheaped, unneaped, unoverleaped, unreaped, upheaped, upleaped, gaped, subgaped, awhaped, brickshaped, chaped, misshaped, outshaped, preshaped, reshaped, shaped, transshaped, unshaped, japed, dognaped, kidnaped, unkidnaped, soaped, unsoaped, bedraped, craped, draped, graped, raped, scraped
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