Word Finder - fled

definition

To run away; to escape.

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The prisoner tried to flee, but was caught by the guards.

definition

To escape from.

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Many people fled the country as war loomed.

definition

To disappear quickly; to vanish.

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Ethereal products flee once freely exposed to air.

One army fled and the other pursued.

Her courage fled to see him framed in his doorway, as seductive by day as he was by night.

She was almost able to catch it before it fled her again.

She all but fled up the stairs to the kitchen, heading towards the iPad.

From Ephesus indeed the garrison fled upon the news of Granicus, but Miletus required a siege.

He fled from Munich, but found a ready welcome elsewhere.

On his brother's murder he fled to Messenia (241 B.C.).

The lingering sickness in his body fled, gone for good.

She fled the banquet hall for the library.

Deidre fled to it, needing something to bolster the defenses that were dropping too fast.

We can maintain the systems from here, but almost everyone has fled west.

She looked back at the lines of those who fled, overwhelmed again.

My mind remained clear and active, "though fled fore'er the light."

Feeling as if she'd said too much, she turned and fled the cottage for her car and locked the doors.

Coming out onto the highroad the French fled with surprising energy and unheard-of rapidity toward the goal they had fixed on.

Whatever Daniela said to him after she fled worked, and Katie didn't see him for the rest of the day.

Jared bowed his head and fled, well aware of the power of the demon lord's fury.

She fled, her ears ringing and cheek burning from his strike.

What peace she'd found in the familiar orchard fled as she looked at the charred, crumbling ruins of the once great city that lay beyond the wall.

The demon within Rissa was panicked, rippling her skin as it fled as far from Memon as possible.

Hurt, she fled into the cold night air, stopping only when she reached the center of the gardens.

My guess is she fled from some type of sexual encounter.

Any thought she had at Andre's apartment not being the target fled as she saw the damage done to her side of the building.

She fled Jenn and emerged from the hallway into the mall.

Jenn's tension fled from her as she picked up the small child and hugged her close.

Sofia fled to her room, amazed at how good she felt.

She was but half converted, and fled before long from a republic in which art and poetry had no place.

She retreated to the patio and fled into the house, relieved when the sun was gone.

Cassandra fled with the others, but not before driving a stake into Jackson.

The color fled from her cheeks as he spoke.

She rose and fled the porch.

He died in 926, and his brother and successor Guthfrith was soon afterwards expelled by "Ethelstan and fled to Eugenius, king of Strathclyde.

But Leopold, alarmed at the turn affairs were taking, fled from Florence, and Montanelli, Guerrazzi and Mazzini were elected "triumvirs" of Tuscany.

Alarmed at the attempts made upon his life by his mother, he fled to the mountains and was for many years a hunter.

Tiridates left Seleucia and fled to Syria.

Alone, in the disguise of a page, she slipped out of the castle at midnight, and rode off to meet him at a tower two miles distant, whence they fled together to Dunbar.

The whole of the Russian cavalry broke and fled to the ridge.

He thereby excited the suspicions of the Sheik al-Balad Khalil Bey, who organized an attack upon him in the streets of Cairo, in consequence of which he fled to Upper Egypt.

He fled and made his way to Syria.

But at last his army was beaten; his men were scattered; and Tamerlane fled alone from the field of battle.

The French who had occupied the battery fled, and our troops shouting "Hurrah!" pursued them so far beyond the battery that it was difficult to call them back.

It was not Napoleon alone who had experienced that nightmare feeling of the mighty arm being stricken powerless, but all the generals and soldiers of his army whether they had taken part in the battle or not, after all their experience of previous battles--when after one tenth of such efforts the enemy had fled--experienced a similar feeling of terror before an enemy who, after losing HALF his men, stood as threateningly at the end as at the beginning of the battle.

They abandoned one another, abandoned all their heavy baggage, their artillery, and half their men, and fled, getting past the Russians by night by making semicircles to the right.

From the time they turned onto the Kaluga road to the day their leader fled from the army, none of the movements of the crowd had any sense.

It fled like a wounded animal and it was impossible to block its path.

The last elector and archbishop, Clement Wenceslaus (1768-1802), granted toleration to the Protestants in 1782, established his residence at Coblenz in 1786, and fled from the French in 1794.

Pandolfo Malatesta of Rimini and Giovanni Sforza of Pesaro fled, and those cities opened their gates to Cesare.

In August he was sent to Spain, where he remained a prisoner for two years; in November i 506 he made his escape, and fled to the court of his brother-in-law, the king of Navarre, under whom he took service.

After a temporary peace, he fled to the monastery of Classe near Ravenna.

Some fled the country, but many (Mariana says 17,000) offered themselves for reconciliation.