Definition for Flee:

• To run away; to hasten, as from danger or expected evil.

Synonyms for Flee:

• n.

  •
  • make a break (for something).
  •
  • break out.
  •break away (noun)
  • break.

• v.

  •abscond (verb)
  • ducked out,
  • cuts run,
  • dogs it,
  • cut run,
  • sneaked away,
  • making scarce,
  • flies the coop,
  • made scarce,
  • dogging it,
  • skipping out,
  • ducking out,
  • flying the coop,
  • make break,
  • cuts and run,
  • going south,
  • made break,
  • sneaks away,
  • sneaking away,
  • steals away,
  • flies coop,
  • skips out,
  • snuck away,
  • makes a break,
  • went south,
  • cutting run,
  • stealing away,
  • makes break,
  • went awol,
  • dogged it,
  • goes awol,
  • flew coop,
  • making a break,
  • skipped out,
  • fly coop,
  • made a break,
  • stole away,
  • making break,
  • goes south,
  • going AWOL,
  • cutting and run,
  • ducks out,
  • makes scarce,
  • flying coop.
  •absquatulate (verb)
  • makes a getaway,
  • making a getaway,
  • made a getaway.
  •avoid (verb)
  • giving slip,
  • stayed out,
  • giving the slip,
  • with-drawn,
  • running for cover,
  • re coils,
  • by passes,
  • with draw,
  • re-coils,
  • keeps clear,
  • gave the slip,
  • by passing,
  • shrinking from,
  • re coiled,
  • gives the slip,
  • steps aside,
  • shook bake,
  • stayed away,
  • lays low,
  • shrank from,
  • steered clear of,
  • runs for cover,
  • shrunk from,
  • circumlocutes,
  • re-coiled,
  • steers clear of,
  • with drawn,
  • with-drawing,
  • skips out on,
  • with drawing,
  • circumlocuting,
  • shakes and bake,
  • by pass,
  • staid out,
  • stays out,
  • shook and bake,
  • stepping aside,
  • shakes bake,
  • shake bake,
  • shuffling off,
  • shuffled off,
  • shrinks from,
  • skips town,
  • circumlocuted,
  • holds off,
  • gives slip,
  • with drew,
  • kept clear,
  • staying out,
  • staid away,
  • re coil,
  • keeping clear,
  • by passed,
  • skipping town,
  • faking out,
  • re coiling,
  • fakes out,
  • shaking bake,
  • give slip,
  • skipping out on,
  • skipped out on,
  • staying away,
  • re-coiling,
  • laying low,
  • turns aside,
  • ran for cover,
  • re-coil,
  • with-draws,
  • with-drew,
  • shuffles off,
  • with draws,
  • shaking and bake,
  • gave slip,
  • stays away,
  • fended off,
  • with-draw.
  •bail out (verb)
  • re treated,
  • re-treat,
  • re treats,
  • re-treated,
  • re-treats,
  • re treat,
  • re-treating,
  • re treating.
  •bolt (verb)
  • leaved holding bag,
  • running like scared rabbit,
  • leaves flat,
  • leaved holding the bag,
  • steps on it,
  • makes tracks,
  • runs like scared rabbit,
  • leaving high and dry,
  • kissed goodbye,
  • leave holding bag,
  • leaving holding the bag,
  • makes break for it,
  • leaving high dry,
  • takes flight,
  • stepping on it,
  • ran like scared rabbit,
  • make break for it,
  • left flat,
  • leaves holding the bag,
  • leaves high and dry,
  • leaving flat,
  • steps it,
  • making a break for it,
  • made a break for it,
  • stepping it,
  • kisses goodbye,
  • ran out on,
  • made break for it,
  • leave high dry,
  • leaves holding bag,
  • left holding the bag,
  • leaving holding bag,
  • leave lurch,
  • stepped it,
  • leaved high dry,
  • makes a break for it,
  • making tracks,
  • left high and dry,
  • leave the lurch,
  • kissing goodbye,
  • leaved high and dry,
  • runs out on,
  • leaved flat,
  • stepped on it,
  • made tracks,
  • making break for it,
  • left high dry,
  • left holding bag,
  • leaves high dry.
  •break (verb)
  • busting out,
  • busts out,
  • gat away,
  • busted out.
  •break away (verb)
  • parted company,
  • parting company,
  • parts company.
  •break out (verb)
  • breaks loose,
  • de-part,
  • de part,
  • gotten free,
  • got free,
  • de parting,
  • bursted out,
  • de-parted,
  • de-parting,
  • brake loose,
  • de parts,
  • broke loose,
  • getting free,
  • breaking loose,
  • de-parts,
  • gets free,
  • gat free,
  • de parted.
  •decamp (verb)
  • de-camp,
  • de camps,
  • de-camping,
  • de-camps,
  • slipped away,
  • heads for hills,
  • head for hills,
  • de camp,
  • making oneself scarce,
  • de camping,
  • hit road,
  • slips away,
  • headed for the hills,
  • headed for hills,
  • heading for hills,
  • de-camped,
  • slipt away,
  • makes oneself scarce,
  • heads for the hills,
  • de camped,
  • heading for the hills,
  • made oneself scarce.
  •depart (verb)
  • depart,
  • leave,
  • exit,
  • part,
  • withdraw,
  • abandon,
  • quit,
  • embark.
  •desert (verb)
  • crawling out,
  • going over the hill,
  • going west,
  • goes over hill,
  • re-signed,
  • sneaks off,
  • taking a hike,
  • goes over the hill,
  • takes a hike,
  • de-sert,
  • be ached,
  • leaving stranded,
  • re signing,
  • went west,
  • re-signs,
  • goes west,
  • de sert,
  • snuck off,
  • crawled out,
  • violating oath,
  • be tray,
  • sneaked off,
  • went over the hill,
  • plays truant,
  • go over hill,
  • be aching,
  • re signs,
  • takes hike,
  • be-tray,
  • be-aching,
  • took a hike,
  • be-ached,
  • leaves stranded,
  • leaved stranded,
  • take hike,
  • sneaking off,
  • playing truant,
  • re signed,
  • re-signing,
  • took hike,
  • went over hill,
  • re-sign,
  • taking hike,
  • going over hill,
  • crawls out,
  • violated oath,
  • played truant,
  • violates oath,
  • be-trays,
  • Re sign,
  • be trays.
  •disappear (verb)
  • evanesce,
  • hide,
  • fade,
  • melt,
  • vanish,
  • dissolve,
  • sink,
  • evaporate.
  •elope (verb)
  • goes to gretna green,
  • goes gretna green,
  • goes secretly,
  • slips out,
  • going gretna green,
  • slipped out,
  • slipt out,
  • slipping out,
  • going secretly,
  • went gretna green,
  • went secretly,
  • went to gretna green,
  • go gretna green,
  • going to gretna green.
  •elude (verb)
  • gets around,
  • out-wits,
  • art beyond someone,
  • beats around bush,
  • were beyond someone,
  • out-witted,
  • staying shy of,
  • ran around,
  • got around,
  • giving the runaround,
  • out running,
  • runs around,
  • gives wide berth to,
  • out-witting,
  • gave the runaround,
  • passes up,
  • out-runs,
  • gotten away from,
  • am beyond someone,
  • hem haw,
  • gave runaround,
  • is beyond someone,
  • beating around bush,
  • running around,
  • beats around the bush,
  • out witted,
  • stays shy of,
  • gotten around,
  • gave wide berth to,
  • was beyond someone,
  • out wits,
  • stayed shy of,
  • out-wit,
  • out witting,
  • gat away from,
  • being beyond someone,
  • passing up,
  • giving wide berth to,
  • not touches,
  • pass buck,
  • not touched,
  • out runs,
  • gat around,
  • out-run,
  • are beyond someone,
  • out run,
  • wert beyond someone,
  • give runaround,
  • staid shy of,
  • wast beyond someone,
  • gives the runaround,
  • gives runaround,
  • giving runaround,
  • out-running.
  •evade (verb)
  • de clines,
  • keeping distance,
  • leads on merry chase,
  • de-clines,
  • pre-tends,
  • leads merry chase,
  • de cline,
  • leading a merry chase,
  • lead on merry chase,
  • pre-tending,
  • leads a merry chase,
  • de-cline,
  • led on a merry chase,
  • leading on a merry chase,
  • lead merry chase,
  • begs question,
  • pre tends,
  • begging question,
  • led a merry chase,
  • leading merry chase,
  • leads on a merry chase,
  • keeps distance,
  • pre-tended,
  • pre tending,
  • begs the question,
  • led merry chase,
  • lead a merry chase,
  • beg question,
  • begged question,
  • kept distance,
  • begged the question,
  • led on merry chase,
  • leading on merry chase,
  • pre tend.
  •fly (verb)
  • goes like wind,
  • running its course,
  • go like wind,
  • goes like the wind,
  • going like the wind,
  • went like wind,
  • went like the wind,
  • runs its course,
  • going like wind.
  •get out (verb)
  • extricating oneself,
  • freeing oneself,
  • buzzes off,
  • am off,
  • extricates oneself,
  • being off,
  • extricated oneself,
  • was off,
  • freed oneself,
  • wast off,
  • wert off,
  • buzzed off,
  • be-gone,
  • is off,
  • buzzing off,
  • frees oneself,
  • were off.
  •go (verb)
  • gotten going,
  • running along,
  • make ones way,
  • re pairs,
  • ran along,
  • re-pair,
  • moves out,
  • re paired,
  • re pair,
  • making one way,
  • make one way,
  • bugging out,
  • makes one way,
  • makes for,
  • makes ones way,
  • takes leave,
  • re-paired,
  • makes way,
  • makes one's way,
  • gets lost,
  • made one's way,
  • made one way,
  • making one's way,
  • pushing on,
  • sets off,
  • making ones way,
  • gotten lost,
  • getting lost,
  • re-pairing,
  • made way,
  • runs along,
  • lit out,
  • gat lost,
  • gat going,
  • re pairing,
  • got lost,
  • bugs out,
  • made ones way,
  • re-pairs,
  • moving out,
  • took leave,
  • gets going.
  •hasten (verb)
  • ex pressed,
  • not lose minuted,
  • gotten cracking,
  • shakes a leg,
  • making haste,
  • whips around,
  • ex-press,
  • ex pressing,
  • moving quickly,
  • takes wing,
  • got cracking,
  • gat cracking,
  • whipped around,
  • not lose a minutes,
  • dis-patched,
  • took wing,
  • not lose minutes,
  • dis patched,
  • not lose a minuting,
  • dis-patching,
  • wastes no time,
  • ex-pressing,
  • wasting no time,
  • getting cracking,
  • dis patching,
  • dis patch,
  • not lose minuting,
  • makes haste,
  • whipping around,
  • taking wing,
  • shook a leg,
  • shakes leg,
  • not lose minute,
  • shake leg,
  • dis-patch,
  • shaking leg,
  • not lose a minuted,
  • get lead out,
  • dis-patches,
  • shook leg,
  • wasted no time,
  • gets cracking,
  • ex press,
  • whipt around,
  • dis patches.
  •hightail (verb)
  • hightailed it,
  • hightailing it.
  •jump bail (verb)
  • leaving town,
  • left town,
  • leaved town.
  •lam (verb)
  • giving someone slip,
  • gives someone the slip,
  • takes it lam,
  • takes it on lam,
  • took it on lam,
  • take it on lam,
  • takes it on the lam,
  • gave someone the slip,
  • took it lam,
  • gives someone slip,
  • taking it lam,
  • took it on the lam,
  • takes it the lam,
  • gave someone slip,
  • giving someone the slip,
  • take it the lam,
  • took it the lam,
  • taking it on the lam,
  • taking it the lam,
  • give someone slip,
  • take it lam,
  • taking it on lam.
  •leave (verb)
  • goes forth,
  • came away,
  • riding off,
  • comes away,
  • went forth,
  • going forth,
  • heads out,
  • removed oneself,
  • removing oneself,
  • sets out,
  • rides off,
  • said goodbye,
  • coming away,
  • heading out,
  • walks out,
  • says goodbye,
  • removes oneself,
  • walked out,
  • headed out,
  • rid off,
  • rode off.
  •motion (verb)
  • flee.
  •recede (verb)
  • regress,
  • retreat,
  • backslide.
  •run (verb)
  • going like lightning,
  • legging it,
  • tearing out,
  • legged it,
  • tore out,
  • tare out,
  • tears out,
  • goes like lightning,
  • legs it,
  • torn out.
  •run away to escape (verb)
  • split,
  • cut out,
  • jump,
  • avoid,
  • skedaddle,
  • get,
  • scram,
  • beat a hasty retreat,
  • take off,
  • get the hell out,
  • make quick exit,
  • hotfoot,
  • blow,
  • step on the gas,
  • scoot,
  • make off,
  • make one's escape.
  •scamper (verb)
  • rushing off,
  • speeding away,
  • speeded away,
  • rushes off,
  • sped away,
  • speeds away.
  •skip (verb)
  • hippety hopping,
  • skimmed over,
  • skirring,
  • hippetyhopping,
  • hippety hops,
  • skims over,
  • hippetyhop,
  • hippety-hopped,
  • dis regard,
  • dis regarding,
  • hippety-hopping,
  • dis regards,
  • missing out,
  • dis-regard,
  • dis regarded,
  • dis-regards,
  • hippety hopped,
  • hippetyhopped,
  • hippetyhops,
  • skimming over,
  • dis-regarding,
  • leaved out,
  • dis-regarded,
  • hippety-hops,
  • skirrs,
  • misses out,
  • skirred.
  •weasel (verb)
  • dancing around an issue,
  • worm way out of,
  • worm one way out of,
  • worming ones way out of,
  • danced around issue,
  • worms way out of,
  • wormed one's way out of,
  • worming one way out of,
  • wormed one way out of,
  • worms one way out of,
  • dances around issue,
  • worming one's way out of,
  • tap danced,
  • dancing around issue,
  • worms one's way out of,
  • worms ones way out of,
  • dance around issue,
  • worming way out of,
  • danced around an issue,
  • wormed ones way out of,
  • worm ones way out of,
  • wormed way out of,
  • dances around an issue.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • absquatulate,
  • lam,
  • flight,
  • make away with,
  • make off with,
  • break for,
  • break away,
  • hasten,
  • runaway,
  • shake,
  • throw off.
  •
  • loose,
  • abscond,
  • run off,
  • get out of,
  • lose.
  •
  • bail out.
  •abscond
  • steal away,
  • duck out,
  • fly the coop,
  • make scarce,
  • make a break,
  • running off,
  • Slipped,
  • skip out,
  • cut and run,
  • slipping,
  • runs off,
  • vamoose,
  • took off,
  • sneak away,
  • dog it,
  • go south,
  • flew the coop,
  • ran off.
  •absquatulate
  • make a getaway.
  •avoid
  • shrink from,
  • keep clear,
  • steer clear of,
  • Withdrew,
  • shake off,
  • fending off,
  • shakes off,
  • laid low,
  • shuffle off,
  • stay away,
  • Shied,
  • step aside,
  • give the slip,
  • skip out on,
  • fake out,
  • circumlocute,
  • shies,
  • by-passes,
  • skipped town,
  • stepped aside,
  • turn aside,
  • by-passing,
  • run for cover,
  • ward off,
  • faked out,
  • lay low,
  • by-passed,
  • skip town,
  • By-pass,
  • shake and bake,
  • turned aside,
  • steering clear of,
  • stay out,
  • Shying,
  • turning aside,
  • hold off.
  •bail out
  • retreating.
  •break away
  • running away,
  • run away,
  • ran away,
  • runs away,
  • part company.
  •disappear
  • Waned,
  • be lost,
  • drop out of sight,
  • passing away,
  • died out,
  • OUTS,
  • ceased to exist,
  • dematerializes,
  • die out,
  • outed,
  • Evanish,
  • be done for,
  • come to naught,
  • fading away,
  • be no more,
  • leaving no trace,
  • cease to exist,
  • be gone,
  • exited,
  • end gradually,
  • ceasing to exist,
  • fade away,
  • dematerialize,
  • is lost,
  • recede,
  • leave no trace,
  • be swallowed up,
  • melt away,
  • dematerialized,
  • fades away,
  • passed away.
  •escape
  • go scot-free,
  • take a powder,
  • make getaway,
  • take on the lam,
  • play hooky,
  • work out of,
  • playing hooky,
  • wriggle out,
  • Escaping,
  • get away with,
  • get out,
  • go scot free.
  •flinch
  • Flinched.
  •get out
  • kite,
  • kited,
  • egressed,
  • KITES,
  • extricate oneself,
  • be off,
  • egressing,
  • buzz off,
  • kiting,
  • free oneself.
  •hasten
  • Hasted,
  • make haste,
  • not lose a minute,
  • move quickly,
  • made haste,
  • gallop,
  • waste no time,
  • haste,
  • shake a leg,
  • shaking a leg,
  • moves quickly,
  • get cracking,
  • moved quickly,
  • whip around,
  • Hasting,
  • take wing.
  •lam
  • give someone the slip,
  • take it on the lam.
  •leave
  • Sallied,
  • say goodbye,
  • set out,
  • saying goodbye,
  • come away,
  • remove oneself,
  • ride off,
  • head out,
  • walking out,
  • going away,
  • emigrate,
  • goes away,
  • Sallying,
  • went away,
  • walk out,
  • go away,
  • go forth,
  • setting out,
  • Embarking.
  •run
  • hightail,
  • shagged,
  • went like lightning,
  • scudding,
  • shagging,
  • shag,
  • smoking,
  • running,
  • leg it,
  • shags,
  • tear out,
  • go like lightning,
  • Loping.

Paraphrases for Flee:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    fleeing, Fled.
  • Verb, base form
    elope.

• Independent

  • Interjection
    idiots.
  • Verb, past tense
    Ran.
  • Verb, base form
    leave, leaving, abandon, fly, evade, abscond, evacuate, vacate, depart, relinquish, emigrate, elude, leak, avoid, hide, shirk, retreat, outrun, discontinue, leakage, withdraw, quit.

Antonyms for Flee:

• v.

  • run away to escape
    continue, meet, arrive, come, dawdle, wait, take on, stand, join.
  • Other antonyms:
    break out, face, confront, stay, return, defy, come out, hang around, issue, beard, emerge, come back, tarry, brave, linger, materialize, loom, dare.

Flee Sentence Examples:

• Thorpe's first impulse was to flee.

• No, flee not, sweet donzell; leave not the desert court, without the flower and the laurel, the beauty and the wisdom, that scent the hour, and foretype eternity.

Homophones for Flee:

• flea.

Hypernym for Flee:

• v.

  • motion
    elope, get away, break loose, abscond, desert, bolt, defect, hightail, escape, run off, make off, break, absquatulate, high-tail, decamp, go off, stampede.

Hyponym for Flee:

• v.

  • motion
    break away, run, fly the coop, lam, hightail it, scat, run away, escape, bunk, head for the hills, take to the woods, turn tail, scarper.