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# flee

«flee» in Mova's school dictionary: **to run away from danger or from a place, quickly** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (flee, flees, fled, fleeing)

### meaning for a pupil

To flee is to run away from danger or from a place, quickly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flee/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and history lessons people and animals flee from fire, floods, war or enemies; refugees flee their homes to be safe. In science, animals flee from predators. Phrases: «flee from», «flee the country», «fled in terror».

### examples

- The deer fled when it heard the dog. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flee/#x1)
- People fled from the burning town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flee/#x2)
- The thief fled before the police arrived. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flee/#x3)
- Many families fled the war to stay safe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flee/#x4)
- The mice fled into their holes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flee/#x5)
- We had to flee the beach when the storm came. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flee/#x6)
- The rabbit fled at the sight of the fox. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flee/#x7)
- Tonight, when the robbers are all asleep, we will flee together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flee/#x8)

### note

Irregular: flee, fled, fled. Homophone trap: «flea» is a tiny insect. «Flee» is stronger and more formal than «run away». Refugees are people who had to flee their country.

### In the corpora

- [They flee through the windows, up the chimney, anywhere away from those sticks.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/71-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall/5/)
- [Millions of Ukrainians had to flee their homes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/24-russias-full-scale-invasion-of-ukraine/1/)
- [Now therefore, my son, hearken to my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.821/)
- [And Jacob outwitted Laban the Aramean, in that he told him not that he fled.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.956/)
- [And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.958/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «flee» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flee/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.