Avoid vs. Escape: Know the Difference

To stay clear of; go around or away from

To break loose from confinement; get free

To take measures so as not to meet or see (someone)

To issue from confinement or enclosure; leak or seep out

To prevent from happening

To avoid a serious or unwanted outcome

To refrain from using, engaging in, or partaking of

(Biology) To become established in the wild. Used of a plant or animal.

To refrain from (doing something)

(Computers) To interrupt a command, exit a program, or change levels within a program by using a key, combination of keys, or key sequence.

(Law) To annul or make void; invalidate.

To succeed in avoiding

(Obsolete) To void or expel.

To break loose from; get free of

(transitive) To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun

To be outside the memory or understanding of; fail to be remembered or understood by

(transitive) To stay out of the way of (something harmful).

To issue involuntarily from

To keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from

The act or an instance of escaping.

To try not to do something or to have something happen

A means of escaping.

To make empty; to clear.

A means of obtaining temporary freedom from worry, care, or unpleasantness

To make void, to annul; to refute (especially a contract).

A gradual effusion from an enclosure; a leakage.

To defeat or evade; to invalidate.

(Biology) A cultivated plant or a domesticated or confined animal that has become established in the wild.

To emit or throw out; to void.

(Computers) A key used especially to interrupt a command, exit a program, or change levels within a program.

To leave, evacuate; to leave as empty, to withdraw or come away from.

(intransitive) To get free; to free oneself.

To get rid of.

(transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.

To retire; to withdraw, depart, go away.

(intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.

To become void or vacant.

(transitive) To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.

To empty.

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.

To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions.

(computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.

To quit or evacuate; to withdraw from.

The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.

To make void; to annul or vacate; to refute.

Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.

To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor no to meet; to shun; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters.

Something that has escaped; an escapee.

To get rid of.

A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life.

To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea, or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter.

(computing) escape key

To retire; to withdraw.

(programming) The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).

To become void or vacant.

(snooker) A successful shot from a snooker position.

Stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something;

(manufacturing) A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.

Prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening;

(obsolete) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake, oversight, or transgression.

Refrain from doing something;

(obsolete) A sally.

Refrain from certain foods or beverages;

(architecture) An apophyge.

Declare invalid;

To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger.

To avoid the notice of; to pass unobserved by; to evade; as, the fact escaped our attention.

To flee, and become secure from danger; - often followed by from or out of.

To get clear from danger or evil of any form; to be passed without harm.

To get free from that which confines or holds; - used of persons or things; as, to escape from prison, from arrest, or from slavery; gas escapes from the pipes; electricity escapes from its conductors.

The act of fleeing from danger, of evading harm, or of avoiding notice; deliverance from injury or any evil; flight; as, an escape in battle; a narrow escape; also, the means of escape; as, a fire escape.

That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake; an oversight; also, transgression.

A sally.

The unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoner's departure from custody.

A plant which has escaped from cultivation.

An apophyge.

Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid.

Leakage or loss of currents from the conducting wires, caused by defective insulation.

The act of escaping physically;

An inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy;

The unwanted discharge of a fluid from some container;

A valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level

Nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do;

An avoidance of danger or difficulty;

A means or way of escaping;

A plant originally cultivated but now growing wild

Run away from confinement;

Fail to experience;

Escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action;

Be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by;

Issue or leak, as from a small opening;

Remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion;

Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run;