Verb

(escap)

To get free, to free oneself.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson

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

* Shakespeare

sailors that escaped the wreck

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=March 1, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC

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

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

* Ludlow

They escaped the search of the enemy.

(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.

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

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

* {{quote-book, year=2002, author=Scott Worley, chapter=Using XML in ASP.NET Applications

, title= Inside ASP.NET , isbn=0735711356, page=214 , passage=Character Data tags allow you to place complex strings as the text of an element—without the need to manually escape the string.}}

* {{quote-book, year=2007, author=Michael Cross, chapter=Code Auditing and Reverse Engineering

, title= Developer's Guide to Web Application Security , isbn=159749061X, page=213 , passage=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.}}

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

Verb

(en verb)

To punish someone for the error or errors of someone else; to make a scapegoat of.

:: Don't scapegoat me for your mistake.

* 1950 , Rachel Davis DuBois, Neighbors in Action: A Manual for Local Leaders in Intergroup Relations , p37

People tend to fear and then to scapegoat ... groups which seem to them to be fundamentally different from their own.

* 1975 , Richard M. Harris, Adam Kendon, Mary Ritchie Key, Organization of Behavior in Face-to-face Interaction , p66

They had been used for centuries to justify or rationalize the behavior of that status and conversely to scapegoat and blame some other category of people.

* 1992 , George H.W. Bush, State of the Union Address [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5047]

And I want to add, as we make these changes, we work together to improve this system, that our intention is not scapegoating and finger-pointing.

* 2004 , Yvonne M. Agazarian, Systems-Centered Therapy for Groups , p208

Then either the world or others or the self becomes the target for the human tendency to scapegoat .

To blame something for the problems of a given society without evidence to back up the claim.