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flee

  [flee] verb, fled, flee⋅ing.
Use flee in a Sentence
–verb (used without object)
1. to run away, as from danger or pursuers; take flight.
2. to move swiftly; fly; speed.
–verb (used with object)
3. to run away from (a place, person, etc.).
Origin:
bef. 900; ME fleen, OE flēon; c. OHG flichan (G fliehen), Goth thliuhan; cf. OE fleogan to fly 1

Synonyms:
3. evade, escape, avoid, shun, elude.
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flee   (flē)   
v.   fled (flěd), flee·ing, flees

v.   intr.
  1. To run away, as from trouble or danger: fled from the house into the night.
  2. To pass swiftly away; vanish: "of time fleeing beneath him" (William Faulkner).
v.   tr.
To run away from: flee the scene of an accident.

[Middle English flen, from Old English flēon; see pleu- in Indo-European roots.]
fle'er n.
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Flee

Flee\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fled; p. pr. & vb. n. Fleeing.] [OE. fleon, fleen, AS. fle['o]n (imperf. fle['a]h); akin to D. vlieden, OHG. & OS. fliohan, G. fliehen, Icel. fl?ja (imperf. fl??i), Dan. flye, Sw. fly (imperf. flydde), Goth. pliuhan. (?) 84. Cf. Flight.] To run away, as from danger or evil; to avoid in an alarmed or cowardly manner; to hasten off; -- usually with from. This is sometimes omitted, making the verb transitive.

[He] cowardly fled, not having struck one stroke. --Shak.

Flee fornication. --1 Cor. vi. 18.

So fled his enemies my warlike father. --Shak.

Note: When great speed is to be indicated, we commonly use fly, not flee; as, fly hence to France with the utmost speed. "Whither shall I fly to 'scape their hands?" --Shak. See Fly, v. i., 5.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : flee
Spanish: huir,
German: fliehen,
Japanese: 逃げる
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flee 
O.E. fleon "take flight" (contracted class II strong verb; past tense fleah, pp. flogen), from P.Gmc. *thleukhanan (cf. O.H.G. fliohan, O.N. flöja, Du. vlieden, Ger. fliehen, Goth. þliuhan "to flee"), of unknown origin. Not found outside Gmc. Weak pt./pp. fled emerged M.E., under influence of Scand. O.E. had a trans. form, geflieman "put to flight," which came in handy in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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