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What is another word for flee?

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To run away from a place or situation of danger

To escape or be liberated or freed from (something)

To elude or evade someone or something in pursuit

To vanish or disappear, especially gradually

To retreat from something frightening or dangerous

To move hurriedly or as by bouncing or twitching

To avoid providing a clear answer or statement

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To run away from a place or situation of danger

do a disappearing act

show a clean pair of heels

balk^US

baulk^UK

take oneself off from

have it away on one's toes

get out of someone's clutches

go absent without leave

leave holding the bag

shrink back

empty

run like scared rabbit

make one's escape from

go and jump in the lake

take a long walk on a short pier

make like a tree and get out of here

make like a tree and leave

go and chase yourself

make a sudden departure

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“She had but one thought now, and that was to flee at full speed through the forest.”

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To escape or be liberated or freed from (something)

do a disappearing act

take French leave

go on the lam

do a Skase

slip through your fingers

show a clean pair of heels

make good one's escape

take to your heels

get out of someone's clutches

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“Crito, driven by the concern to preserve his own honor, offers Socrates the means to flee from his cell.”

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To elude or evade someone or something in pursuit

balk^US

baulk^UK

slip through the net of

escape the clutches of

lead on a merry chase

slip through your fingers

outmaneuver^US

have nothing to do with

keep one's distance from

give something a miss

pay little attention to

wink at

blink at

let something slide

leave something undone

keep out of the way of

extricate oneself from

fake out

give someone the brush-off

give someone the go-by

cut dead

give the cold shoulder to

cut someone cold

sham

duck out of the way of

swerve away from

get out of the way of

give the cold shoulder

move from side to side

not take into account

push aside

turn a blind eye

bury one's head in sand

not listen

boggle at

jib at

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“Gibson managed to flee the authorities in a boat.”

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To vanish or disappear, especially gradually

vaporize^US

vaporise^UK

disappear from the face of the earth

lose its effectiveness

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“As soon as the suffragettes were temporarily released, they would flee from sight.”

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To retreat from something frightening or dangerous

go like a bat out of hell

plough^UK

plow^US

go like greased lightning

go at breakneck speed

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To move hurriedly or as by bouncing or twitching

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To avoid providing a clear answer or statement

baulk^UK

balk^US

dance around an issue

put off

slip out

sneak away

worm one's way out of

temporize^US

temporise^UK

play it close to the vest

not give a straight answer to

beat about the bush about

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