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Princeton's WordNet1.5 / 4 votes

  1. flee, fly, take flightverb

    run away quickly

    "He threw down his gun and fled"

    Synonyms:
    take flight, vaporize, fly, aviate, vanish, fell, pilot, wing

Editors Contribution5.0 / 1 vote

  1. escapeverb

    she finally had a chance to escape her prison.

    Submitted by Soulwriter on July 11, 2021  

Dictionary of English Synonymes5.0 / 1 vote

  1. fleeverb

    Synonyms:
    fly, run, decamp, escape, abscond, hasten away, run away, make off, TURN TAIL, cut and run

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "flee":

    escape, leave, run, abandon, fly, elope, abscond, leak

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#10170leak
#14530abandon
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#119891vaporize
#194257abscond

How to use flee in a sentence?

  1. Joe Argueta:

    One male was armed with a baseball bat and the other male with a pistol. When Dodge Challenger attempted to flee, the male with the pistol fired multiple gunshots at the passenger side of Dodge Challenger.

  2. Salai Ben:

    The military is still arresting people even if we use the white flag. They checked our phones and they will arrest us if they find pictures of the protests, and I am worried that they will harm us and we will have to flee again.

  3. Dennis Linthicum:

    Although they [Democrats] kept attacking us for leaving the state and we argued for minority rights, today all of the sudden, they’re on the other side of the wave trying to argue that it’s perfectly appropriate to support minority rights and they have the right to flee.

  4. Mark Hetfield:

    As a rule, refugees do not bring terror, they flee terror, refugees resettled to the United States are already subject to multiple layers of security screenings.

  5. Senfronia Thompson:

    I'm ready to be arrested, what do you do to a slave if you don't do nothing but arrest them when they flee.


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