Synonyms for flee
fliflee

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.5 / 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

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. escapeverb

   she finally had a chance to escape her prison.

   Submitted by Soulwriter on July 11, 2021  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. fleeverb

   Synonyms:
   fly, run, decamp, escape, abscond, hasten away, run away, make off, TURN TAIL, cut and run

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "flee":

   escape, leave, run, abandon, fly, elope, abscond, leak

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1. 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.

2. Sal LaBarbera:

   Many of our murder suspects have connections to Las Vegas, it is not unusual for our suspects to flee to Vegas.

3. Dennis Linthicum:

   Although they [Democrats] kept attacking us for leaving the state and we argued for minority rights, today all of the sudden, they’re on the other side of the wave trying to argue that it’s perfectly appropriate to support minority rights and they have the right to flee.

4. Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis:

   This is exactly what Baltimore Police community expects a police officer to do when they see someone with a firearm, why this young man chose to flee on foot when he was approached by two Baltimore police officers, I don't know.

5. Scott Stewart:

   It’s going to be difficult, the sheer size of city. It’s really Iraq’s second city. They have a lot of infestation. The question is, ‘ are they [ ISIS ] going to flee or are they going to hold on because of the meaning of Mosul ? ’.