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flee
/fli/
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What does flee mean?
verb
- To run away; to escape.
- To escape from.
- To disappear quickly; to vanish; to fleet.
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IPA pronunciation
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It broke upon her at length as a great pain that her last old disciple was about to forsake her and flee.
The Duke was obliged to flee before the French soldiers, who forced their way into the town and took possession of it.
More book examples (3)
He almost had run the gamut, and she really appeared as if she intended to flee rather than to come to him.
And the culvers be so taught, that they flee with those letters to the very place that men would send them to.
As soon as they are liberated, the Mason-bees flee as though scared, some in one direction, some in exactly the opposite direction.