Definition of "escape"

sailors that escaped the wreck

c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene i]

Luiz was Chelsea's stand-out performer, although Ferguson also had a case when he questioned how the £21m defender escaped a red card after the break for a hack at Rooney, with the Brazilian having already been booked.

2011 March 1, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Man Utd”, in BBC

It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next; […].

2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36

They escaped the search of the enemy.

c. 1698-1699 (year published) Edmund Ludlow, Memoirs

If the data for a URI component would conflict with the reserved purpose, then the conflicting data must be escaped before forming the URI.

1998 August, Tim Berners-Lee et al., Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax (RFC 2396), page 8

Character Data tags allow you to place complex strings as the text of an element—without the need to manually escape the string.

2002, Scott Worley, “Using XML in ASP.NET Applications”, in Inside ASP.NET, page 214

Therefore, what follows is a list of typical output functions; your job is to determine if any of the functions print out tainted data that has not been passed through some sort of HTML escaping function.

2007, Michael Cross, “Code Auditing and Reverse Engineering”, in Developer's Guide to Web Application Security, page 213

But what about the flocks of Waxbills? Are they escapes gone feral, or are they spreading from Africa?

2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 124

I should have been more accurate, corrected all those former escapes.

1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps

thousand escapes of wit

c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene i]