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autoescape

autoescape verb: to escape (cause a text character to be interpreted literally) automatically.

Verb

autoescape (third-person singular simple present autoescapes, present participle autoescaping, simple past and past participle autoescaped)

  1. (transitive) To escape (cause a text character to be interpreted literally) automatically.

Forms of autoescape

third-person singular presentautoescapes
present participleautoescaping
past participleautoescaped
pastautoescaped

Origin of autoescape

From auto- + escape.

Questions about autoescape

What does autoescape mean?
Autoescape means to escape (cause a text character to be interpreted literally) automatically.
What part of speech is autoescape?
Autoescape is a verb.
What is the past tense of autoescape?
The past tense of autoescape is autoescaped.

Words near autoescape in the dictionary

  1. autoerotisms
  2. autoerotist
  3. autoerotists
  4. autoerythrocyte
  5. autoerythrocytes
  6. autoescape
  7. autoescaped
  8. autoescapes
  9. autoescaping
  10. autoethnographer
  11. autoethnographers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: autoescape (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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