flee

verbrun away to escape

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Word Origin & History

Old English fleon "take flight, fly from, avoid, escape" (contracted class II strong verb; past tense fleah, past participle flogen), from Proto-Germanic *thleukhanan (cf. Old High German fliohan, Old Norse flöja, Old Frisian flia, Dutch vlieden, German fliehen, Gothic þliuhan "to flee"), of unknown origin. Not found outside Germanic.

Weak past tense and past participle fled emerged Middle English, under influence of Scandinavian. Old English had a transitive form, geflieman "put to flight," which came in handy in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Related: Fleeing.

Example Sentences forflee

Already the inward monitor was whispering to her, "Arise, flee for your life!"

In this house the cook must have been in the kitchen, just ready to go to work when he had to flee.

To flee away swiftly had been well within his right, had been almost a duty.

Finally a revolt broke out, and the emperor was obliged to flee.

It's my basket they'll be wantin', no me; and i' this drift, basket may flee but it winna float!'

O shame upon the nameless knight, to flee where a woman fought!

There are some natures, I believe, which after a shock turn and flee from the shocking agent.

Under pressure my body reacts, preparing me to fight or flee.

She seemed so strange to him that he now could not be induced to flee.

He shook his long black arms at the couple and made them flee.

flee

absquatulate

avoid

avoided

avoiding

bail out

flee

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