flee

English

Etymology

From Old English flēon, from Proto-Germanic *fleuhaną.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fliː/
• Rhymes: -iː

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Homophone: 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 (haraba), فر (farra)
• Armenian: փախչել (pʿaxčʿel)
• Asturian: fuxir
• Breton: redek (br), tec'hout (br), fuiñ
• Bulgarian: бягам (bg) (bjagam), избягвам (bg) (izbjagvam)
• Catalan: fugir (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 逃 (zh) (táo), 奔逃 (zh) (bēntáo), 奔 (zh) (bēn)

• Czech: utéct
• Danish: flygte, fly (da)
• Dutch: vluchten (nl), wegvluchten, ontsnappen (nl)
• Faroese: flýggja
• Finnish: paeta (fi), karata (fi)
• French: s'enfuir (fr)
• Friulian: fuî
• Galician: fuxir (gl)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: fliehen (de), flüchten (de)
• Greek: φεύγω (févgo)

  Ancient Greek: φεύγω (pheugō), τρέω (treō)

• Icelandic: flýja (is)
• Italian: fuggire (it)
• 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
• Macedonian: по́бегне (póbegne), на́пушти (nápušti)
• Maori: kairere
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: flykte, rømme (no)

  Nynorsk: flykte, rømme

• Novial: fuga
• Old Church Slavonic: бѣжати (běžati)
• Old Saxon: fliohan
• Persian: گریختن (fa) (gorixtæn)
• Polish: uciec (pl), uciekać (pl), zbiec, umknąć (pl), umykać
• Portuguese: escapar (pt), fugir (pt)
• Quechua: ayqey, chinkakapuy
• Romanian: scăpa (ro), evada (ro), fugi (ro)
• Russian: убега́ть (ru) impf (ubegátʹ), убежа́ть (ru) pf (ubežátʹ), удира́ть (ru) impf (udirátʹ), удра́ть (ru) pf (udrátʹ)
• Spanish: huir (es)
• Swedish: fly (sv)
• Telugu: పారిపోవు (te) (pāripōvu)
• Welsh: ffoi (cy)

to escape from

• Armenian: փախչել (pʿaxčʿel)
• Breton: tec'hel (br)
• Bulgarian: избягвам (bg) (izbjagvam)
• Danish: flygte
• Dutch: ontkomen (nl), ontlopen (nl), ontvluchten (nl)
• Finnish: paeta (fi), karata (fi)
• French: fuir (fr), échapper (fr)
• Friulian: fuî
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: fliehen (de), entfliehen, flüchten (de)
• Icelandic: flýja (is)
• Japanese: 逃げる (にげる, nigeru)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: ڕاکردن

• Latin: fugio (la), confugio (la), diffugio, profugio, refugio, evado, evado
• Macedonian: и́збегне (ízbegne)
• Polish: uciec (pl), uciekać (pl), zbiec, umknąć (pl), umykać
• Portuguese: escapar de, fugir de
• Romanian: fugi (ro)
• Russian: убега́ть (ru) impf (ubegátʹ), убежа́ть (ru) pf (ubežátʹ), удира́ть (ru) impf (udirátʹ), удра́ть (ru) pf (udrátʹ)
• Spanish: huir (es)
• Swedish: fly (sv)
• Telugu: పారిపోవు (te) (pāripōvu)
• Welsh: ffoi (cy)

to disappear quickly

• Breton: tec'hout (br)
• Bulgarian: изчезвам бързо (izčezvam bǎrzo)
• Dutch: vervliegen (nl), vlieden (nl)
• Latin: evanesco, aufugio

• Polish: ulotnić się, ulatniać się
• Portuguese: sumir (pt)
• Romanian: (figuratively) a se evapora, dispărea (ro)
• Spanish: desvanecerse (es)

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Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: fuĝi
• Indonesian: minggat (id), melarikan diri (id)
• Kurdish: revîn (ku), bazdan (ku)

• Portuguese: fugir (pt)
• Spanish: huir (es), fugarse (es)

Anagrams

• feel
• fele

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Scots

Etymology

From Old English flȳġe, flēoge.

Noun

flee

1. fly