Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Preterit and past participle of flee.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imp. & p. p. of
flee .
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
flee .
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Examples
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The people in the street had been throwing stones, so many of us fled from the campus to our homes.
Iran Election Live-Blogging (Tuesday June 16) The Huffington Post News Team 2009
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I just returned from Cambodia, a place that has been close to my heart for 30 years now, all the more because my wife and I had the privilege of hosting Cambodian refugees in our home as they fled from the horrible genocide of the late 70s.
Brian D. McLaren: A Wake-Up Call From the Depths of the Congo Brian D. McLaren 2010
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I watched silently as she fled from the room, silently cursing myself.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Kynnaston’s Review Forum 2009
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My grandparents fled from the Bolsheviks because they were capitalists, and Jewish.
Marcia Reynolds: Gender Equality: Why Do We Still Lag Behind Other Countries? Marcia Reynolds 2010
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Crazed with PTSD, Frank fought off the cops, fled from the jail, stole a motorcycle and hid in the nearby mountains.
Brianna's art frankwu 2009
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I watched silently as she fled from the room, silently cursing myself.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Kynnaston’s Review Forum 2009
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Already the people had fled from the city by millions -- at first the rich, in their private motor-cars and dirigibles, and then the great mass of the population, on foot, carrying the plague with them, themselves starving and pillaging the farmers and all the towns and villages on the way.
Page 5 2010
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Yams and sweet potatoes seem to have fled from the soil, for they come not.
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That 28 people died at their own hand, preferring this to being returned, when their asylum application failed, to the country they fled, is a terrible indictment of British justice.
'Racist' UK policies blamed for deaths of 77 asylum seekers and migrants Karen McVeigh 2010
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My grandparents fled from the Bolsheviks because they were capitalists, and Jewish.
Marcia Reynolds: Gender Equality: Why Do We Still Lag Behind Other Countries? Marcia Reynolds 2010
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