Word Finder - flee

definition

To run away; to escape.

example

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

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To escape from.

example

Many people fled the country as war loomed.

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To disappear quickly; to vanish.

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Ethereal products flee once freely exposed to air.

Darian didn't flee, but suddenly, Jenn wanted to.

If someone was able to track her, she needed to flee, fast.

Take shelter under the cloud, while they flee to carts and sheds.

In alarm he wishes to flee, considering himself lost.

At that point, people flee the land looking for a better deal.

She wanted to scream, cry, or flee.

He had to flee from Paris; and, though he found an asylum in the palace of Fontainebleau, his house was pillaged and his library burned in his absence.

His temporalities had been seized, and he was obliged to flee from France.

She yanked her hands free and stumbled around him, wanting to flee.

But do thou flee, 0 Devil, for the judgment of God is at hand."

Terrified, Sarah finally listened to Reese, and the two flee into the night.

He is the warrior deity carrying the hundred knotted mace from whom all demons flee in fear.

The nine teenagers, along with their guardians, flee to Earth and disguise themselves as high school students.

But his success was short-lived, for in 1029 the Norwegian nobles, seething with discontent, rallied round the invading Knut the Great, and Olaf had to flee to Russia.

When at last he was forced to flee from Constantinople, the bridge-keeper's son owned 320 houses in the city, and he had also acquired interests in banks and mines.

After the first defeats he had to flee from France with the empress, and settled in England at Chislehurst, completing his military education at Woolwich.

As the ferret enters the hole the rabbits flee before it, and are shot or caught by dogs as they break ground.

Instead of sitting at Westminster he took part in the unsuccessful rising at Tunbridge in favour of King Charles I., and was obliged to flee in disguise to Oxford, then the royal headquarters.

In 1899 Cavaignac was an unsuccessful candidate for the presidency of the republic. He had announced his intention of retiring from political life when he died at his country-seat near Flee (Sarthe) on the 25th of September 1905.

Ubanu, installed by the Boers as paramount chief in 18 9 4, was a sanguinary despot and was compelled to flee in 1898.

Eusebius accepted the small bishopric of Emesa (the modern Horns) in Phoenicia, but his powers as mathematician and astronomer led his flock to accuse him of practising sorcery, and he had to flee to Laodicea.

The tradition that he was forced to flee from France along with other nominalists, and founded the university of Vienna in 1356, is unsupported and in contradiction to the fact that the university was founded by Frederick II.

Having to flee from Greece on account of a Syrian invasion they proceeded to Scandinavia.

The cowed inhabitants had been trained out of all habit of acting for themselves by the imperial despotism, and could only flee or submit.

Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.

It was full of the sort of upper-middle-class Surrey women with sharp elbows you would flee from in a dark alley.

Last year asylum-seekers were forced to flee the city after being attacked by thugs wearing knuckle-dusters.

In politics he was a zealous Royalist, asserting that even the unjust and tyrannous violence of princes may not be resisted, although it might be avoided in terms of the instruction, "when they persecute you in one city, flee into another."

But when it was discovered that he had bribed the Delphian priestess to substantiate his charge he was himself obliged to flee; he went first to Thessaly and then to Arcadia, where he attempted to foment an anti-Spartan rising.

Oh my! if they only realized their limitations, they would flee for their lives to the woods and fields.

But though they all realized that it was necessary to get away, there still remained a feeling of shame at admitting that they must flee.

However, he later reversed his loyalties and having joined the Royalists had to flee abroad.

In any case, what to do when Felix or Fifi flee?

Limit the amount of space where your cat can flee.

Two games, Flee Camp Jellyjam and Monster Feast, offer a slightly scary experience while other activities include a trivia game and a monster maker.

When your brain perceives stress, your body releases adrenalin into the bloodstream, giving your brain the burst of energy it needs to fight, flee, or freeze.

Dawit stated that she had run away because she could no longer feed her daughter and had "…decided to flee rather than watch her die."

I must flee! >Mine foes shall suffer.

Agoraphobia-Abnormal anxiety regarding public places or situations from which the person may wish to flee or in which he or she would be helpless in the event of a panic attack.

Still other children flee out of romantic notions of being with a girlfriend or boyfriend.

Flee markets, antique shops and similar venues offer a wide rage of possibilities.

Nothing causes a Sag to flee faster than a potential romantic partner that has his days planned all the way to retirement!

These activities and more led the family to flee the house after only 28 days on the premises.

There appears to be a collection of Resurrection Cemetery ghosts who flee through the gates into the path of oncoming cars.

Our heroes keep the Imperial Troops occupied until the evacuation of the base can be completed, and then they too flee into space.

Gandalf is lost to an enemy in the Misty Mountains, and treachery reaches into the hearts of the company itself, as Boromir tries to steal the Ring from Frodo, forcing Frodo and Sam to flee alone, and the rest of the Company to follow.

Often the painful sting occurs before the jellyfish is observed, leaving the victim no fair warning to flee their wrath.

Deidre wanted to flee and never return, but she nodded at the young woman who almost seemed normal.

It took every ounce of her willpower not to flee hysterically or give in to the desire to collapse and sob.

Dhjan A'Ran's family was forced to flee with his few trusted advisors.