ESCAPE

[noun]He made his escape (= He escaped) on the back of a motorbike. [C]They had a narrow escape (= only just avoided injury or death) when their car crashed."You will never get away," said the prison-camp commander. "Escape is impossible." [U]An escape is also an accidental loss.an escape of radioactivity(figurative) Romantic novels provide an escape from reality.We carefully planned our escape route.There's no escape means that there is no way to get out of a place or avoid a situation.You'll have to do the exam again - there's no escape if you want to continue the course.(specialized) The escape key ( Esc) is the key on a computer keyboard which allows you to leave a particular screen and return to the previous one or to interrupt a process.Press Esc to return to the main menu.An escape hatch is the part of a submarine through which people can leave when it is under water.(specialized) The escape velocity of an object is the lowest speed it must have to escape from the gravity of a planet such as the Earth, and fly out into space.