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flee::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | fly, take flight |
| Type of | fly the coop, hightail it, lam, bunk, run, run away, break away, head for the hills, scarper, scat, escape, take to the woods, turn tail |
| Has types | hightail, make off, run off, stampede, go off, absquatulate, bolt, break, break loose, decamp, defect, desert, elope, escape, get away, abscond, high-tail |
| Derivation | fleer, flight |
Examples of flee
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Mubarak, a former air force commander, resolutely vowed not to flee the country.
From the bostonherald.com
Dozens were captured immediately or caught later attempting to flee the country.
From the nzherald.co.nz
The suspect was able to get away and flee in a vehicle that was waiting for him.
From the kansas.com
The crowd screamed, freaked out and tried to flee amid the debris as instructed.
From the post-gazette.com
Then returning to southern Sudan, only to flee again to a refugee camp in Kenya.
From the washingtonpost.com
His bond was set at $1 million after a prosecutor told the judge Jones may flee.
From the cnn.com
It is justice at the hands of this tribunal that Taylor recently sought to flee.
From the theatlantic.com
Mutual funds were forced to flee to meet redemptions from investors cashing out.
From the investors.com
He died Sept. 15, in League City, where he was taken to flee from Hurricane Ike.
From the chron.com
- Run away quickly; "He threw down his gun and fled"
- Flu00E9e may refer to the following communes in France:
- Flee is an album by British blues rock musician Jeremy Spencer, who was a member of Fleetwood Mac from 1967-71, and "The Jeremy Spencer Band" (composed of members of the Children of God new religious movement), with particularly strong input from Michael Fogarty. ...
- (Fleeing) The "fight-or-flight response", also called the "fight-or-flight-or-freeze response", the "fright, fight or flight response", "hyperarousal" or the "acute stress response", was first described by Walter Cannon in 1929.
- Fled is a 1996 action film directed by Kevin Hooks. A remake of the 1958 film The Defiant Ones, the film stars Laurence Fishburne and Stephen Baldwin as a pair of escaped criminals on the run from the police, corrupt officials and the Cuban Mafia.
- (Fled (soundtrack)) Fled is the soundtrack to the 1996 action film, Fled. It was released on July 15, 1996 through Rowdy Records and cosisted mainly of hip hop and R&B music. ...
- To run away; to escape; To escape from; To disappear quickly; to vanish
- (fled) Simple past of flee
- (Fled) An undescribed K-PAXian being
