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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 move or travel hurriedly

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

go absent without leave

have it away on one's toes

leave holding the bag

jump bail

empty

run like scared rabbit

take a long walk on a short pier

go and jump in the lake

make like a tree and get out of here

make like a tree and leave

exeunt

go back over the same ground

go and chase yourself

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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

show a clean pair of heels

get out of someone's clutches

slip through your fingers

make good one's escape

make one's escape from

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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

have nothing to do with

outmaneuver^US

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

rationalize^US

extricate oneself from

find a way around

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

rationalise^UK

give the cold shoulder

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

vanish off the face of the earth

clear out

drop

draw to a close

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

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To move or travel hurriedly

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

go places and do things

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To avoid providing a clear answer or statement

baulk^UK

balk^US

dance around an issue

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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