Flee

Verb

 * 1)  To run away; to escape.
 * The prisoner tried to flee, but was caught by the guards.
 * 1)  To escape from.
 * Many people fled the country as war loomed.
 * Thousands of people moved northward trying to flee the drought.
 * 1)  To disappear quickly; to vanish.
 * ''Etherical products flee once freely exposed to air

Related terms

 * flight

Adverbs for Flee
incontinently; instinctively; peremptorily; precipitately; timorously; tremulously; impetuously.

Thesaurus
abscond, absquatulate, avoid, bail out, be annihilated, be consumed, be destroyed, be gone, be no more, be wiped out, beat a retreat, beat it, blow, bolt, break, break away, break jail, break loose, bunk, cease, cease to be, cease to exist, clear out, cut and run, cut loose, cut out, decamp, dematerialize, depart, desert, die, die away, die out, disappear, dispel, disperse, dissipate, dissolve, do a fade-out, dwindle, elope, elude, erode, escape, escape prison, eschew, evade, evanesce, evaporate, exit, expire, fade, fade away, fade out, fly, fly the coop, fugitate, get away, get clear of, get free, get out, get out of, go, go AWOL, go away, hide, hightail, jump, jump bail, leave no trace, leave the scene, levant, make a getaway, make an exit, make off, make tracks, melt, melt away, pass, pass away, pass out, perish, peter out, quit, retire from sight, run, run along, run away, run away from, run away with, run for it, run off, scamper, scape, scoot, scram, screw, show the heels, shun, sink, sink away, skedaddle, skip, skip out, slip the cable, slip the collar, split, suffer an eclipse, take French leave, take flight, take off, take to flight, take wing, turn tail, vamoose, vanish, vanish from sight, waste, waste away, wear away

Etymology
fleon:

Pronunciation

 * Homophones: flea
 * Homophones: flea
 * Homophones: flea
 * Homophones: flea

Translations

 * Arabic: ,
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: flygte, fly
 * Dutch: vluchten, wegvluchten, ontsnappen
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Japanese: (, nigeru)
 * Kurdish:
 * Kurmanji:, ,
 * Sorani: ,
 * Zazaki:


 * Latin: fugere, terga vertere
 * Macedonian: побегне, напушти (pobegne, napushti)
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Polish: uciec,, zbiec, umknąć, umykać
 * Portuguese: escapar, fugir
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian: убегать, убежать ; удирать , удрать
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: పారిపోవు (paaripOvu)
 * Welsh: ffoi


 * Armenian:
 * Danish: flygte
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German:, ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Japanese: (, nigeru)
 * Kurdish:


 * Macedonian: избегне (izbegne)
 * Polish: uciec,, zbiec, umknąć, umykać
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: убегать, убежать ; удирать , удрать
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: పారిపోవు (paaripOvu)
 * Welsh: ffoi


 * Dutch: ,
 * Polish: ulotnić się, ulatniać się


 * Romanian: a se evapora,
 * Spanish: desvanecerse


 * : minggat, melarikan diri
 * : revîn, bazdan


 * : fugir
 * : huir, fugarse

Anagrams

 * feel
 * fele

Etymology
Old English flȳġe, flēoge.

Noun
flee


 * 1) fly