flee past tense and past participle fled
- flee past tense and past participle fled
- verb (I, T)
to leave somewhere very quickly in order to escape from danger: When they saw the police car, his attackers turned and fled. | flee the country/city: We were forced to flee the country.
(+ from/to/into): The Dalai Lama fled to India after a failed uprising against the Chinese.
Longman dictionary of contemporary English.
2004.
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