Flee

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To run away, as from trouble or danger: fled from the house into the night.
  • verb-intransitive. To pass swiftly away; vanish: "of time fleeing beneath him” ( William Faulkner).
  • v. To run away from: flee the scene of an accident.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To run away; to escape.
  • v. To escape from.
  • v. To disappear quickly; to vanish.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb-intransitive. To run away, as from danger or evil; to avoid in an alarmed or cowardly manner; to hasten off; -- usually with from. This is sometimes omitted, making the verb transitive.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To run away; take flight; seek escape or safety by flight.
  • To disappear; disperse: as, all our pleasures have fled; the color fled from her cheeks; the clouds flee before the rising sun.
  • To move swiftly; fly; speed, as a missile.
  • To avoid by flight; fly from; shun.
  • n. An obsolete or dialectal form of fly.
  • An obsolete form of fly.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. run away quickly
  • Antonym
    stay   
    Verb Form
    fled    fleeing    flees   
    Variant
    fled   
    Form
    fled    fleeing   
    Synonym
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    depart    run    slope    skedaddle    fly    avoid   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ab    Ac    Ag    Agee    Aimee    Albee    Amputee    B    B.    Be   
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