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1. Run away quickly
   "He threw down his gun and fled";
   - fly, take flight, cut and run

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Derived forms: fleeing, fled, flees

Type of: break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam [N. Amer], leg it [Brit], run, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail

Encyclopedia: Flee Flee, Cote-d'Or Flee, Sarthe