[{"word":"escaping","phonetic":"/əsˈkeɪpɪŋ/","phonetics":[{"text":"/əsˈkeɪpɪŋ/","audio":""}],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"verb","definitions":[{"definition":"To get free; to free oneself.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"The factory was evacuated after toxic gases escaped from a pipe."},{"definition":"To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"He only got a fine and so escaped going to jail."},{"definition":"To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"Luckily, I escaped with only a fine."},{"definition":"To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"The name of the hotel escapes me at present."},{"definition":"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.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"Brion escaped the double quote character on Windows by adding a second double quote within the literal."},{"definition":"To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the \"Esc\" key) or combination of keys.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"The act of one who escapes; an escape.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"That which escapes or leaks out; an emission.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/escape","https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/escaping"]}]