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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