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Antonyms for flee
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Princeton's WordNet1.5 / 4 votes

  1. flee, fly, take flightverb

    run away quickly

    "He threw down his gun and fled"

    Synonyms:
    take flight, vaporize, fly, aviate, vanish, fell, pilot, wing

How to use flee in a sentence?

  1. Justin Bramberg:

    This idea that Alex Murdaugh has never attempted to flee – that's a skewed view of reality here. Suicide is the ultimate attempt to flee, the money that was misappropriated and stolen from them wasn't just fun money, it wasn't just 'I'm going to go to Las Vegas and gamble' money. This was money that was supposed to be used to compensate them for injuries, so that they could afford medical care.

  2. Two Syrian women:

    Everyone's left, foreign ISIS fighters have set up checkpoints, taken the ID cards of Syrians and use them to flee to Turkey.

  3. German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier:

    If Russia is really serious about claiming to contribute to the stabilization of Syria, then that can't succeed if thousands more people are forced to flee by military offensives.

  4. Andrew Brown:

    I think Mr. Brown's intention was to get away. I think Mr. Brown was fleeing an arrest because Mr. Brown had drugs on his person and in his car and I think he did not want to get caught with those, so that's why I think Mr. Brown was fleeing, the officers' position around the car is why he drove at them. He had no choice, if he was going to attempt to flee, he had no choice but to drive directly at the officers. When he did that, and he made that decision on his own, he placed their lives in danger.

  5. Sergey Lavrov:

    They behave like pillagers and marauders. And, you know, there is a lot of information about the future provocations that brood in Mariupol and other territories where the Ukrainians are now trying to use the civilians as a human shield, talk to the Indians, the Arabs, and the Africans that are trying to flee Ukraine now. They are not allowed.

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