flee

English

Etymology

Old English flēon

Pronunciation

• IPA: /fliː/, SAMPA: /fli:/
• Rhymes: -iː

• Audio (US)

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• Homophones: flea

Verb

flee (third-person singular simple present flees, present participle fleeing, simple past and past participle fled)

1. (intransitive) To run away; to escape.

   The prisoner tried to flee, but was caught by the guards.

2. (transitive) To escape from.

   Many people fled the country as war loomed.

   Thousands of people moved northward trying to flee the drought.

3. (intransitive) To disappear quickly; to vanish.

   Etherical products flee once freely exposed to air

Related terms

• flight

Translations

to run away; to escape

Arabic: هرب (ar) (haraba), فر (ar) (farra) Armenian: փախչել (hy) (p’axčel) Catalan: fugir (ca) Chinese: 逃 (cmn) (táo), 奔逃 (cmn) (bēntáo), 奔 (cmn) (bēn) Czech: utéct (cs) Danish: flygte (da), fly (da) Dutch: vluchten, wegvluchten, ontsnappen Finnish: paeta (fi), karata (fi) French: s'enfuir (fr) German: fliehen (de), meiden (de), flüchten (de) Icelandic: flýja (is) Japanese: 逃げる (にげる, nigeru) Kurdish: Kurmanji: revîn (ku), bazdan (ku), bezîn (ku) Sorani: هه‌ڵاتن, ده‌رپه‌ڕین Zazaki: remayen (ku)

Latin: fugiō (la), fugitō (la), perfugio (la) Macedonian: побегне, напушти (pobegne, napushti) Old Church Slavonic: бѣжати (běžati) Polish: uciec (pl), uciekać (pl), zbiec (pl), umknąć (pl), umykać (pl) Portuguese: escapar (pt), fugir (pt) Romanian: scăpa (ro), evada (ro), fugi (ro) Russian: убегать (ru) (ubegát') impf., убежать (ru) (ubežát') pf.; удирать (ru) (udirát') impf., удрать (ru) (udrát') pf. Spanish: huir (es) Swedish: fly (sv) Telugu: పారిపోవు (te) (paaripOvu) Welsh: ffoi

to escape from

Armenian: փախչել (hy) (p’axčel) Danish: flygte (da) Dutch: ontkomen (nl), ontlopen (nl), ontvluchten (nl) Finnish: paeta (fi), karata (fi) French: fuir (fr), échapper (fr) German: fliehen (de), entfliehen (de), flüchten (de) Icelandic: flýja (is) Japanese: 逃げる (にげる, nigeru) Kurdish: ڕاکردن Latin: fugio (la), confugio (la), diffugio (la), profugio (la), refugio (la), evado (la), evado (la)

Macedonian: избегне (izbegne) Polish: uciec (pl), uciekać (pl), zbiec (pl), umknąć (pl), umykać (pl) Romanian: fugi (ro) Russian: убегать (ru) (ubegát') impf., убежать (ru) (ubežát') pf.; удирать (ru) (udirát') impf., удрать (ru) (udrát') pf. Spanish: huir (es) Swedish: fly (sv) Telugu: పారిపోవు (te) (paaripOvu) Welsh: ffoi

to disappear quickly

Dutch: vervliegen (nl), vlieden (nl) Latin: evanesco (la), aufugio (la) Polish: ulotnić się (pl), ulatniać się (pl)

Romanian: (figuratively) a se evapora (ro), dispărea (ro) Spanish: desvanecerse (es)

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Esperanto: fuĝi Indonesian: minggat, melarikan diri Kurdish: revîn, bazdan

Portuguese: fugir Spanish: huir, fugarse

Anagrams

• feel
• fele

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Scots

Etymology

Old English flȳġe, flēoge.

Noun

flee

1. fly