Flee

Word FLEE
Character 4
Hyphenation flee
Pronunciations /fliː/

Definitions and meanings of "Flee"

What do we mean by flee?

To run away, as from trouble or danger. intransitive verb

To pass swiftly away; vanish. intransitive verb

To run away from. intransitive verb

An obsolete form of fly.

An obsolete or dialectal form of fly. noun

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.

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. intransitive verb

To run away; to escape. verb

To escape from. verb

To disappear quickly; to vanish. verb

Run away quickly verb

To run away; to escape.

To escape from.

To disappear quickly; to vanish.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Flee

The word "flee" in example sentences

Mara and Dann in the eco-fable of the same name flee from a new Ice Age to an uncertain foothold in what used to be Africa. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Reuters reports that “Taliban fighters are shaving off their beards and trying to flee from a Pakistani army offensive in their Swat bastion, the military said on Friday, as it relaxed a curfew to allow civilians to get out.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

They pick up a sixteen year old signal in French from previous castaways, they encounter and kill a polar bear, and they flee from a monster which has thus far remained out of sight (and which also devoured the pilot who was the sole survivor from the front section of the aircraft). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Meanwhile Aaron must flee from the cops and other Berserkers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Taliban captors held him hostage for seven months, until June of last year, when he and his Afghan colleague managed to flee from a compound in Pakistan's North Waziristan region. ❋ Unknown (2010)

BRIEF SYNOPSIS: A man who repossesses artificial organs must flee from the organization that employs him when he cannot pay for his own artificial heart. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The rush to flee from the men in black had overridden concerns about direction, and his GPS had been corrupted in the midst of his attack on the drones. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He wanted to flee from the artifice of his father’s creation: he longed to become an autonomous adult, to be a man, not the object of nostalgic pilgrimages to a living shrine not of his making. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Indonesian residents flee from a risky area on Monday, as the Mount Merapi volcano releases ash clouds in the village of Balerante. ❋ Patrick Barta (2010)

I have a sort of extremely light and strong bridges, adapted to be most easily carried, and with them you may pursue, and at any time flee from the enemy; and others, secure and indestructible by fire and battle, easy and convenient to lift and place. ❋ Unknown (2010)

That weak souls, and sensitive souls, and high-pitched souls flee from the crassness and the rawness of the world to the drug-dreams of the over-world of rhythm and vibration — ­ ❋ Unknown (2010)

Of course you can flee from the two dozen gringos in Xalapa to other villages like Cosautlan, Teocelo, Naolinco, etc., etc. and work on getting bored there. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Even though Levitt and Dubner have the same generalized propensity to flee, the bond dealers in a competitive market nonetheless charge Levitt a lower percentage fee because they think the probability that he will flee is lower. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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