flee
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old English flēon, from Proto-Germanic *fleuhaną, from Proto-Indo-European *plewk-, *plew- (“to fly, flow, run”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
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.
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1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./4/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
- As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.
- (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.
- Ethereal products flee once freely exposed to air.
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Translations[edit]
to run away; to escape
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to escape from
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to disappear quickly
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Scots[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old English flȳġe, flēoge.
Noun[edit]
flee
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