| VERB | motion | flee, fly, take flight | run away quickly |
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| Sounds | fliy' | |
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| Rhymes | ably ... zealously: 1543 rhymes with liy... | |
| Meaning | run away quickly. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s PP | |
| Synonyms | fly, take flight | |
| Narrower | abscond, bolt, absquatulate, decamp, run off, go off, make off | run away |
| break | make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing | |
| defect, desert | desert (a cause, a country or an army) , often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army | |
| elope, run off | run away secretly with one's beloved | |
| escape, get away, break loose | run away from confinement | |
| high-tail, hightail | retreat / retreat at full speed | |
| stampede | run away in a stampede / stampede | |
| Broader | scat, run, scarper, turn tail, lam, run away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills, take to the woods, escape, fly the coop, break away | flee |
| Spanish | echarse el pollo, escapar, evadir, fugarse, huir, volar | |
| Catalan | anar-se'n, escapar, escapolir-se, evadir-se, evadir, fugir, tocar el dos, volar | |
| Nouns | fleer | someone who flees from an uncongenial situation |
| flight | the act of escaping physically | |
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