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flee English

Meaning flee meaning

What does flee mean?
Definitions in simple English

flee Verb

— If you flee, you run away or escape. The prisoner tried to flee, but was caught by the guards. — If you flee a place, you escape from it. The culprit fled the crime scene. Millions of people fled the country during the war.

flee

— verb run away quickly He threw down his gun and fled

Synonyms flee synonyms

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flee English » English

run away escape run fly take flight abscond leave get away retreat take to one’s heels slip away run off hurry evade elude disappear desert avoid vanish skedaddle shun lam hasten go away fly the coop take to flight stampede sneak away skip run fast run away from move swiftly jump hide go rapidly depart cut and run break loose break away bolt be routed withdraw wear off turn away to run away terrified take shelter submit start squeak through

Topics flee topics

What do people use flee to talk about?
Social behavior Prosperity, trouble Respond to someone in trouble

Save from trouble
Physical actions Move Pursue

Escape

Conjugation flee conjugation

How do you conjugate flee?

flee · verb

Examples flee examples

How do I use flee in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I think, therefore I flee.
Women chase crazy men; they flee from the wise ones as if they were poisonous beasts.
I must flee or I will be imprisoned.
Never flee from injustice, intolerance, or insanity. Reason must prevail.
The weeks flee like dreams.
He didn't flee.
When two armies oppose one another, those who can fight should fight, those who can't fight should guard, those who can't guard should flee, those who can't flee should surrender, and those who can't surrender should die.

Movie subtitles

Flee in my robes, and I will die in your place.
Theonis and Ramphis flee on the raft.
Egyptian soldiers flee the city before the Ethiopian army.
We will flee to England.
Flee!
Nana's servants flee after a thorough ransacking.
Our only chance is to flee.
They flee from other people or attack them with stones.
But Mabuse decided not to flee but rather to mount armed resistance, and he barricaded himself in his house with four loyal henchmen.
And I think he won't flee from her.
Do not stay here, flee!
No, if I was sure I loved a woman, I'd flee even faster.
You'll sell the rest of your furniture, flee this house and its intruders, and I'll see to your new home.
I shall flee to Livonia.
Don't be a hero, it's best you flee.
I mean, flee to my lodge in the hills.
But why did you flee then?
Flee?
I didn't flee.
You must flee.
I'll take you from the castle. We'll flee together.
I had to flee to Mexico to start life anew.
I know however far I flee, one day he will come up with me and I shall feel the terrible hand on my shoulder.
Her name's von Thorn, and you're helping her flee, as I see it.
Whole populations would flee to the hills when my ship came in sight of land my name was like thunder, rolling in from the sea.
We had to flee the country the next day, and when we did, all I brought with me was this ball.
Quickly take my clothes and flee. I will die in your place.
Gudule decided to flee.
I am ready to flee with you.
Berit took advantages of this moment to flee.
The people who knew him before. Learning that his fortune was not legitimate. Would flee from him, as from a plague.
That night I decided to run away from them. to flee forever. without demanding my 18,000 francs. so that I wouldn't be the only thief in the family!
Yes, Countess, flee!
Any day now we'll have to flee in random directions.
I'm going away to flee from life.
To flee from it, my dear Venusian. To flee from it.
The first one is that I never said I wanted to flee from Earth.

News and current affairs

If foreign official demand is the real reason behind the euro's strength, the risk is that foreign sovereign euro buyers will eventually flee, just as private investors would, only in a faster and more concentrated way.
Imagine the panic that would have ensued in a world where gold, storable commodities, and art were the only ways for investors to flee from the dollar.
Would New York, Frankfurt, or even Paris receive a competitive boost as international bankers, alarmed at the prospect of time behind bars if their derivative trades blow up again, flee the City?
And even when that is accepted, when the sheer number of people clamoring to get to Europe's shores makes it all but impossible to deny the barbarity driving them to flee, a third smokescreen goes up.
Over a million Palestinians, unable to flee to either Egypt or Israel, have for years been ruled by a military junta that prioritizes the killing of Israelis, across the international border, at all costs.
The best evidence for continuing confidence in the integrity of US securities markets comes from foreign investors, who would be among the first to flee if they feared rampant corporate fraud and inadequate regulation.
Yet the numbers are staggering: each month, some 40,000 Iraqis flee their homes because of the war.
According to the UN High Commission for Refugees, all countries combined have offered a chance to start a new life to approximately the same number of Iraqi refugees as flee the country in just five days.
Others say that this is not an option in Khodorkovsky's case - being very rich, he could easily jump bail and flee abroad.
He had to flee his country, paving the way for the democratic transition that resulted in the recent election of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
If the regime prevails, Syria's citizens will continue to flee in droves to Turkey, Lebanon, and Europe.
Capital began to flee the country, which may not have mattered had the world economy not tanked in September.
But consider a case like Spain, where so much money has fled the banking system - and continues to flee as Europe fiddles over the implementation of a common banking system.
But there has always been another, much smaller, group of asylum-seekers - those individuals forced to flee their home countries by persecution, often on religious or ethnic grounds.
His friend, a young Iraqi actress named Zahra Zubaidi, had to flee the Middle East after having played a rape victim in the Brian de Palma film Redacted; she has since emigrated to New York.
He had to flee Liberia a few months later and initially received asylum in Nigeria, but is now on trial in The Hague.
I have received death threats on more than one occasion, and my children and I have had to flee our homeland.
The international community is legally bound to protect those who are being forced to flee their homes by conflict and persecution.
The massive exodus from the Middle East as hundreds of thousands flee war and terror is just the latest chapter in Europe's long history as a destination for refugees.
A government's ability to redistribute wealth will also be limited if raising taxes causes capital or high-income earners to flee the country.
And ten years ago, during the financial crisis, violent anti-Chinese riots erupted again, causing many Chinese to flee the country.
But Humala's detractors claim he took up arms to help the escape of Montesinos, who was already wanted by the law, but managed to flee aboard a sailboat towards Galapagos on the day of the coup.
At the same time, this is only the beginning of the crisis, because the conditions inciting people to flee their homelands will only worsen.
For Putin, the timing of the political eruption in Ukraine - with protesters eventually forcing the Kremlin-supported president, Viktor Yanukovych, to flee the country - could not have been more ominous.
Others were forced to flee the country altogether.

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