Usually means: Escapes quickly to avoid danger.
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  1. flees: Merriam-Webster
  2. flees: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. flees: Collins English Dictionary
  4. flees: Vocabulary.com
  5. Flees, flees: Wordnik
  6. flees: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. flees: Wiktionary
  8. flees: Dictionary.com
  9. flees: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. flees: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flees: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. flees: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (flee)

▸ verb:  (intransitive) To run away; to escape.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To escape from.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To disappear quickly; to vanish.
▸ Also see flee


Opposite:
approaches, advances, draws near

Phrases:
person who flees a country, more...

Adjectives:
wicked, latter, other, criminal, dead, female, delinquent, hireling, last, artificial, former



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Opposite:
approaches, advances, draws near

Phrases:
person who flees a country, more...

Adjectives:
wicked, latter, other, criminal, dead, female, delinquent, hireling, last, artificial, former




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