What is another word for fleeing?

Pronunciation: [flˈiːɪŋ] (IPA)

Fleeing is a term often used to describe the act of running away from danger, fear, or some sort of threat. There are several synonyms that can be used to convey the same meaning, such as escaping, bolting, evading, eluding, or even absconding. Each of these words implies an urgency to leave one place in order to find safety or avoid something unpleasant. Fleeing is typically associated with events that require a quick response, such as a fire, a natural disaster, or a violent attack. Whatever the reason for the need to flee, it is important to act with speed and caution to ensure a safe escape.

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Usage examples for Fleeing

fleeing myself, I could not know, but from things the mother has dropped, they must have seen terrible times together, she and her husband.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
Indeed, there are many such-big, impassive, impressive in their very loneliness, in summer given over to the winds and the meadow larks and to the shadows fleeing always over the hilltops.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
Mrs. Claybourne yielded, after first fleeing to her room in tears.
"I Walked in Arden"
Jack Crawford

Famous quotes with Fleeing

  • A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.
    Pietro Aretino
  • When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.
    Stephen Carter
  • Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.
    Giorgio de Chirico
  • Grown men have been seen fleeing after reading the menu posted outside.
    William E. Geist
  • Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
    Hesiod

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