Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To run away, as from trouble or danger.
- intransitive verb To pass swiftly away; vanish.
- intransitive verb To run away from.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete or dialectal form of
fly . - To run away; take flight; seek escape or safety by flight.
- To disappear; disperse: as, all our pleasures have fled; the color fled from her cheeks; the clouds flee before the rising sun.
- To move swiftly; fly; speed, as a missile.
- To avoid by flight; fly from; shun.
- An obsolete form of
fly .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To run away, as from danger or evil; to avoid in an alarmed or cowardly manner; to hasten off; -- usually with
from . This is sometimes omitted, making the verb transitive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To
run away ; toescape . - verb transitive To
escape from. - verb intransitive To
disappear quickly ; tovanish .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb run away quickly
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Mara and Dann in the eco-fable of the same name flee from a new Ice Age to an uncertain foothold in what used to be Africa.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2007 - Presentation Speech 2007
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They pick up a sixteen year old signal in French from previous castaways, they encounter and kill a polar bear, and they flee from a monster which has thus far remained out of sight (and which also devoured the pilot who was the sole survivor from the front section of the aircraft).
12 « February « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009
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They pick up a sixteen year old signal in French from previous castaways, they encounter and kill a polar bear, and they flee from a monster which has thus far remained out of sight (and which also devoured the pilot who was the sole survivor from the front section of the aircraft).
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The rush to flee from the men in black had overridden concerns about direction, and his GPS had been corrupted in the midst of his attack on the drones.
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Taliban captors held him hostage for seven months, until June of last year, when he and his Afghan colleague managed to flee from a compound in Pakistan's North Waziristan region.
Former Hostage: Afghan Taliban and Pakistani Taliban Work 'Seamlessly Together' 2010
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BRIEF SYNOPSIS: A man who repossesses artificial organs must flee from the organization that employs him when he cannot pay for his own artificial heart.
March 2010 2010
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Reuters reports that “Taliban fighters are shaving off their beards and trying to flee from a Pakistani army offensive in their Swat bastion, the military said on Friday, as it relaxed a curfew to allow civilians to get out.”
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He wanted to flee from the artifice of his fathers creation: he longed to become an autonomous adult, to be a man, not the object of nostalgic pilgrimages to a living shrine not of his making.
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BRIEF SYNOPSIS: A man who repossesses artificial organs must flee from the organization that employs him when he cannot pay for his own artificial heart.
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That weak souls, and sensitive souls, and high-pitched souls flee from the crassness and the rawness of the world to the drug-dreams of the over-world of rhythm and vibration —
CHAPTER XI 2010
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