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Yes, escape is playable

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"Escape" Definition

noun

A gradual effusion from an enclosure; a leakage.
A means of escaping.
A means of obtaining temporary freedom from worry, care, or unpleasantness: Television is my escape from worry.
Botany A plant that has become established away from the area of cultivation.
Computer Science A key, combination of keys, or key sequence, used especially to interrupt a command, exit a program, or change levels within a program.

adjective

Providing a means of escape.
Providing a means of evading a regulation, claim, or commitment.

verb-intransitive

Botany To become established in the wild. Used of a cultivated species.
Computer Science To interrupt a command, exit a program, or change levels within a program by using a key, combination of keys, or key sequence.
To avoid a serious or unwanted outcome: escaped from the accident with their lives.
To break loose from confinement; get free: escape from jail.
To issue from confinement or an enclosure; leak or seep out: Gas was escaping from the vent.

verb-transitive

To issue involuntarily from: A sigh escaped my lips.
To succeed in avoiding: The thief escaped punishment.

verb

To get away (as by flight).
To issue from confinement.
To run wild from cultivation.
To avoid a threatening evil.
To get free of break away from.

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