flee
/ˈfliː/ verb B2- To run away; to escape. · The prisoner tried to flee, but was caught by the guards.
- To escape from. · Many people fled the country as war loomed.· Thousands of people moved northward trying to flee the drought.
- To disappear quickly; to vanish; to fleet. · Ethereal products flee once freely exposed to air.
He/she/it flees · Past fled · Past participle fled · -ing form fleeing
Verb forms
- Base form
- flee
- He/she/it
- flees
- Past
- fled
- Past participle
- fled
- -ing form
- fleeing
An irregular verb: learn its past and past participle by heart.
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Anne, bursting into tears, rushed to the hall door, slammed it until the tins on the porch wall outside rattled in sympathy, and fled through the hall and up the stairs like a whirlwind.
He fled hastily to the remotest corner of the horse pasture lest Marilla should suspect what he had been up to.
William Bell’s field she fled across it as if pursued by an army of white things, and arrived at the Barry kitchen door so out of breath that she could hardly gasp out her request for the apron pattern.
Her knees trembled, her heart fluttered, a horrible faintness came over her; not a word could she utter, and the next moment she would have fled from the platform despite the humiliation which, she felt, must ever after be her portion if she did so.
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