Word Finder - fleeing

definition

To run away; to escape.

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The prisoner tried to flee, but was caught by the guards.

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To escape from.

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Many people fled the country as war loomed.

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To disappear quickly; to vanish.

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Ethereal products flee once freely exposed to air.

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The act of one who flees.

Attack on feds fleeing towards Sky Bridge.

He is said to be fleeing in great disorder.

While fleeing from Aristaeus, she was bitten by a serpent and died.

In 1831 he took part in the insurrection at Modena, fleeing afterwards to Paris, whence he proceeded to Spain to fight against the Carlists.

The rebel forces were defeated in the ensuing battle and the mighty Warwick himself slain fleeing the battlefield.

You can't turn away a genuine refugee fleeing persecution.

Thus Britain recognizes as refugees people fleeing non-state persecution - such as women escaping forced marriages - while Germany does not.

But the arrival in Wales of 100s of families and individuals fleeing repression and torture is recent ' .

About 1817 the country was invaded by the chieftain Mosilikatze and his impis, who were fleeing from the vengeance of Chaka, king of the Zulus.

Fleeing from Moscow the soldiers took with them everything they had stolen.

White farmers fleeing from black anti-white racism are among the few genuine asylum seekers that the BNP will admit to the UK.

The floor manager - for it was he - then scurried out of sight, already fleeing the scene of the crime.

Food Not Bombs has started organizing busses, vans and truckloads of food, kitchen equipment and clothing to the people fleeing the disaster.

She 's fleeing not just the authorities but also one very large, very angry and very vengeful storm headed after her.

Often times even the most supportive parenting techniques fail when a teen has their mind set on fleeing.

The basic plot remains the same, with humanity fleeing from a Cylon attack.

Katherine secretly buried her in the backyard before fleeing her abusive husband.

Fleeing from hired thugs on a motorcycle, he attempts to drive through the exit as the ramp is being raised, flinging him head first into the dangling warning sign that reads 'Max Headroom 2.3 m'.

Gandalf charged Frodo with fleeing the Shire with the Ring because Sauron and the Nazgul were aware of it and they were hunting for the One Ring.

Deidre eased against him, the tension fleeing her body.

She was ten seconds from fleeing.

The Deans knew they couldn't simply keep Martha without reporting her arrival to the Midwest authorities that were searching for the girl as a kidnapping victim, and her mother as a fleeing fugitive.

Deidre nodded, unable to think of a response that didn't involve crying or fleeing.

Intent on fleeing him as well as the demons, she ran as hard as she could back to the castle before doubling over to catch her breath.

The door opened, and Lana gripped the railing to keep from fleeing.

While in Thrace he is said to have caused the death of Eurydice, who was bitten by a snake while fleeing from him.

The Amahlubi, one of the highest in rank of the Bantu tribes of South Africa, fleeing from the cruelties of ' Between 1860 and 1866 some 5000 Indians entered the colony.

Ionian Greeks fleeing from foreign invasion founded Siris about 650 B.C., and, much later, Elea (540).

In and after the later part of the 5th century it received many Celtic immigrants from the British Isles, fleeing (it is said) from the Saxons; and the Celtic dialect which the Bretons still speak is thought to owe its origin to these immigrants.

In ancient Greece, an asylum was an "inviolable" refuge for persons fleeing from pursuit and in search of protection.

Hermann makes St Ursula a native of Brittany, and so approximates to the version of the story given by Geoffrey of Monmouth (Historia Britonum), according to whom Maximian, after fleeing from Rome and acquiring Britain by marriage, proceeds to conquer Brittany and settle it with men from the island opposite.

The simple idea that possesses the monks is that of fleeing the world; they have no distinctions of orders, and though they follow the rule of St Basil object to being called Basilians.

Henry, and fleeing westward was again decisively defeated on the Mississippi at the mouth of the Bad Axe river (on the 1st and 2nd of August) by General Henry Atkinson.

Following the Nile route he occupied Dongola without opposition, the Mamelukes fleeing before him.

Rhyn slammed into the wall above the doors the Immortals were fleeing through.

Many civilians were drowned as they tried to escape the carnage by fleeing across the River Slaney.

We find it in avoiding every occasion of sin; in fleeing from temptation; and in quickly returning to God through sacramental confession.

He also said his country would keep letting in all those fleeing what the West calls ethnic cleansing in the Serb region of Kosovo.

Libyans began flooding into the country, not as conquerors but apparently as refugees fleeing famine in north Africa.

He had the choice of fleeing Athens or drinking the hemlock - but he didn't get a choice of what poison to drink.

Their evil intent is to capture the fleeing refugees from Edoras to take to their master Saruman at Isengard.

She's fleeing not just the authorities but also one very large, very angry and very vengeful storm headed after her.

Groups include families with children and, since 2002, people who are fleeing domestic violence as well as those leaving care or prison.

Cold weather on the Continent may see birds fleeing westwards to southern Britain.

He did not now run with the feeling of doubt and conflict with which he had trodden the Enns bridge, but with the feeling of a hare fleeing from the hounds.

He rode on to the region where the greatest number of men had perished in fleeing from Pratzen.

But the arrival in Wales of 100s of families and individuals fleeing repression and torture is recent '.

Secondly is a murder scene where a woman, fleeing the machete wielding killer, splatters blood across a bright white wall.

There were many Kindred fleeing France and everywhere the Toreador of the greatest cities guarded their Status and Elysuim against the newcomers.

After a period of years, Frodo finds himself unable to settle into Shire life and leaves on an elven ship from the Grey Havens to the land in the west to which the elves are fleeing; it is a land from which there is no return.