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escapism noun

  /ɪˈskeɪpɪzəm/
  • An inclination to escape from routine or reality into fantasy.
 eskapismi, todellisuuspakoisuus
  • A genre of book, film etc. that one uses to indulge this tendency.
 eskapismi

escape verb

  /ə-/ , /ɛ-/ , /ɛk-/ , /ɪk-/ , /ɪˈskeɪp/
  • (intransitive) To get free; to free oneself.
 paeta, karata, päästä
  • (transitive) To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from.
 paeta, livetä, livistää, välttää
  • (intransitive) To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment.
 välttyä, päästä, selvitä
  • (computing) To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys.
 eskapoida, keskeyttää ohjelma, suojata
  • (transitive, computing) 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.
 eskapoida, suojata
  • (transitive) To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by.
 jäädä huomaamatta, jäädä mielestä, unohtua

escape noun

  /ə-/ , /ɛ-/ , /ɛk-/ , /ɪk-/ , /ɪˈskeɪp/
  • The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.
 pako, poispääsy
  • (programming) The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).
 esc-merkki
  • (computing) escape key
 esc-näppäin
  • (obsolete) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake, oversight, or transgression.
 lipsahdus, vahinko
  • Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.
 vuoto
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