(run away from confinement; "The convicted murderer escaped from a high security prison")
(fail to experience; "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane")
(escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action; "She gets away with murder!"; "I couldn't get out from under these responsibilities")
(be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by; "What you are seeing in him eludes me")
(remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion; "We escaped to our summer house for a few days"; "The president of the company never manages to get away during the summer")
(flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up")
(issue or leak, as from a small opening; "Gas escaped into the bedroom")
(having escaped, especially from confinement; "a convict still at large"; "searching for two escaped prisoners"; "dogs loose on the streets"; "criminals on the loose in the neighborhood")