Definitions for flees

flees flee

Spelling: [flee]
IPA: /fli/

Flees is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 38 anagrams from letters in flees (eefls).

Definitions for flees

verb (used with object)

  1. to run away from (a place, person, etc.).

verb (used without object)

  1. to run away, as from danger or pursuers; take flight.
  2. to move swiftly; fly; speed.

Origin of flees

before 900; Middle English fleen, Old English flēon; cognate with Old High German flichan (German fliehen), Gothic thliuhan; compare Old English fleogan to fly1

Examples for flees

But he loses his backpack in the process and it stays with the cops as he flees down the walkway toward Brooklyn.

But their attempts to outrun his Secret Service detail end in disaster when Finn hits a woman and flees the scene.

In the wild, killer whales vie for dominance but the subdominant animal then flees the scene and the conflict subsides.

Occasionally we may start up a deer that flees away from us like the wind.

Like a bird that flees from a hawk, he has fallen into the hand of the fowler.

He rushes at Villain, who flees and scales the park railings.

Rick flees the underworld, in this case the prison, and returns to the world as a hero.

It flees from men, knowing that they regard it with aversion.

To try to find some happy ending, in a way, falsifies, flees from the reality.

When the emotion is in full flood, the animal fights, flees, or faints.

Word Value for flees
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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