flee
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to flee (third-person singular simple present flees, present participle fleeing, simple past and past participle fled)
- (intransitive) To run away; to escape.
- The prisoner tried to flee, but was caught by the guards.
- (transitive) To escape from.
- Many people fled the country as war loomed.
- Thousands of people moved northward trying to flee the drought.
- (intransitive) To disappear quickly; to vanish.
- Etherical products flee once freely exposed to air
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to run away; to escape
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to escape from
to disappear quickly
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