[
  {
    "word": "escape",
    "phonetic": "/\u0259\u02c8ske\u026ap/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/\u0259\u02c8ske\u026ap/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/escape-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1239916",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The prisoners made their escape by digging a tunnel."
          },
          {
            "definition": "Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Something that has escaped; an escapee.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Escape key",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal).",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "You forgot to insert an escape in the datastream."
          },
          {
            "definition": "A successful shot from a snooker position.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake, oversight, or transgression.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "A sally.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "An apophyge.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "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": []
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/escape"
    ]
  }
]