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Definition: FLED |
FLED1. Imp. & p. p. of Flee. Imperative & past participle1. Of Flee |
Date "FLED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Escape | Adjective:.escaping, escaped; Verb: stolen away, fled. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: FLED |
| English words defined with "FLED": Aaron Burr, ascend ♦ burr ♦ come up ♦ Emil Klaus Julius Fuchs, erupting, eruptive ♦ flee, fly, Frithstool, Fuchs ♦ Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus ♦ Klaus Fuchs ♦ Mary Queen of Scots, Mary Stuart ♦ Pompey, Pompey the Great, pursuing ♦ rise ♦ take flight, To make as if, To make as though, turn ♦ uprise ♦ William III, William of Orange. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "FLED": Achish, Adonijah, Alpheos and Arethu sa, Argentile ♦ Berea ♦ En-gannim ♦ Flee, Fly ♦ Iconium, INAUSPICIOUSLY ♦ Jabesh-Gilead, Jephthah, Johnstone ♦ Left Town, Lestrigons, lexicographer ♦ Mahanaim, Margaret, Martano, Mazeppa, Mezentius ♦ Naioth ♦ Onesimus, Oril'o ♦ Sabrina, Safe Haven, Senanus, Sharezer, Sheb-seze, Shobi, Siphmoth, Solyman ♦ Tob, The land of ♦ Urijah, USR ♦ War of the Meal-sacks ♦ Ziklag, Zoar, Zoheleth. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "FLED": flee. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You could have fled, and yet you stayed to defend those, who moments before, threatened to destroy you my people (Shadow Raiders; writing credit: Christy Marx; Katherine Lawrence) She eventually fled to a convent, and on the day she took her Holy Orders, I turned her into a demon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) How very sad it was the night she fled the scene, she didn't want the name of Madame Guillotine (Demoiselles de Rochefort, Les; writing credit: Jacques Demy) | |
Tongue Twisters | False Frank fled Flo Friday. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | But Now They Are Fled (1971) The Parson Who Fled West (1915) Fled (1996) | |
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Theater & Movies | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | All the others fled in terror and disappeared in the Great Forest. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | The poor Njokoo fled for his life. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Too late the rime popped in his head : be mine! he sang -- but Spring had fled. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Main street storefront, Chickasaw, Oklahoma. This is a region from which hundreds of farm families have fled to the west. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Virgil | His limbs were cold in death; his spirit fled with a groan, indignant, to the shades below. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
US Constitution | 1791 | Clause 2: A Person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall on Demand of the executive Authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the Crime. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Scrooge seized the ruler with such energy of action, that the singer fled in terror, leaving the keyhole to the fog and even more congenial frost |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | She fled for refuge, as it were, to the public exposure, and dreaded the moment when its protection should be withdrawn from her. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He had remained standing, and had not changed his attitude since the child fled. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | At most, by an alms given to a beggar whose blessing he fled from, he might hope wearily to win for himself some measure of actual grace |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Know, my loving lord, The Marquis Dorset, as I hear, is fled To Richmond, in the parts where he abides |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The Mexicans were weak and fled. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The remnants fled into the mountains of eastern China. (references) | |
Even now, many of the largest textile manufacturers are still run by the heirs of textile entrepreneurs that fled the Mainland during late 1940s because of political upheaval. (references) | ||
Children | Ghana | In April a math tutor at Aburi Girl's Secondary School, Eastern Region, fled after being accused of assaulting at least 17 girls. (references) |
East Timor | Primary education is compulsory and free; however, while the majority of children returned to school in 2000 and during the year after having fled their villages during the 1999 violence, a shortage of schools and educational materials remained at year's end. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Bangladesh | No investigation was conducted, and Islam fled the country. (references) |
Economic History | Uganda | Obote fled to exile in Zambia. (references) |
Guatemala | In the face of this pressure, Serrano fled the country. (references) | |
Paraguay | Oviedo fled the same day, first to Argentina, then to Brazil. (references) | |
Human Rights | Kyrgyz Republic | Dyryldayev fled the country and has remained abroad. (references) |
Indonesia | Tens of thousands of Christians fled their homes as villages were attacked. (references) | |
Armenia | In April 2000, Siradeghian disappeared and is believed to have fled the country. (references) | |
Minorities | Nigeria | Reportedly 25 persons were killed, and 25,000 Tiv fled Taraba for camps on Benue and Nasarawa. (references) |
Tanzania | By August 22, 10 persons reportedly had been killed and 4,000 had fled across the border to Kenya. (references) | |
Solomon Islands | Since 1998 approximately 30,000 persons, mainly Malaitans, have fled their homes as a result of the conflict. (references) | |
Political Economy | Cote d'Ivoire | President Gbagbo blamed foreigners from Burkina Faso, and thousands fled the country. (references) |
Indonesia | Thousands of Acehnese residents fled their villages during conflicts between the security forces and separatists. (references) | |
Georgia | In 1993 Abkhaz separatists won control of Abkhazia, and most ethnic Georgians were expelled from or fled the region. (references) | |
Political Rights | Colombia | In response to these attacks and threats, some rural mayors fled to major cities, where they continued to conduct municipal business via telephone and facsimile. (references) |
Croatia | However, in 2000 the Government failed to ensure that many Croatian Serbs, who fled in 1995 and who wished to assume the responsibilities of Croatian citizenship, could document their Croatian citizenship in order to vote and ultimately to return. (references) | |
Saudi Arabia | The Committee for the Defense of Legitimate Rights (CDLR), an opposition group, was established in 1993. The Government acted almost immediately to repress it. In 1994 one of its founding members, Mohammed Al-Masari, fled to the United Kingdom, where he sought political asylum and established an overseas branch of the CDLR. In 1996 internal divisions within the CDLR led to the creation of the rival Islamic Reform Movement (IRM), headed by Sa'ad Al-Faqih. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Guatemala | After testifying at the trial, the SITRABI union leaders who were the principal targets of the vigilante assault fled the country for fear of retaliation. (references) |
India | In June 2000, 14 underage rescued sex workers fled the government shelter in Mumbai, citing poor conditions and "inhuman treatment." In August 2000, the Mumbai High Court instructed the Maharashtra government to improve conditions in its rescue homes. (references) | |
China | Although there has been some reduction of patriotic education activities throughout the region as the objectives of increasing control over the monasteries and reducing the numbers of monks and nuns were achieved, many monasteries and nunneries were disrupted severely, and monks and nuns have fled to India to escape the campaigns. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what he can to arrest its growth, stiffen its flexibility and mechanize its methods. For your lexicographer, having written his dictionary, comes to be considered "as one having authority," whereas his function is only to make a record, not to give a law. The natural servility of the human understanding having invested him with judicial power, surrenders its right of reason and submits itself to a chronicle as if it were a statue. Let the dictionary (for example) mark a good word as "obsolete" or "obsolescent" and few men thereafter venture to use it, whatever their need of it and however desirable its restoration to favor -- whereby the process of improverishment is accelerated and speech decays. On the contrary, recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow at all, makes new words and uses the old in an unfamiliar sense, has no following and is tartly reminded that "it isn't in the dictionary" -- although down to the time of the first lexicographer (Heaven forgive him!) no author ever had used a word that was in the dictionary. In the golden prime and high noon of English speech; when from the lips of the great Elizabethans fell words that made their own meaning and carried it in their very sound; when a Shakespeare and a Bacon were possible, and the language now rapidly perishing at one end and slowly renewed at the other was in vigorous growth and hardy preservation -- sweeter than honey and stronger than a lion -- the lexicographer was a person unknown, the dictionary a creation which his Creator had not created him to create. God said: "Let Spirit perish into Form," And lexicographers arose, a swarm! Thought fled and left her clothing, which they took, And catalogued each garment in a book. Now, from her leafy covert when she cries: "Give me my clothes and I'll return," they rise And scan the list, and say without compassion: "Excuse us -- they are mostly out of fashion." Sigismund Smith |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | We are engaged in a continuing dialogue with the Pakistan government concerning its development and security requirements and the economic burden imposed by Afghan refugees who have fled to Pakistan. |
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| "FLED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 62.59% of the time. "FLED" is used about 1,063 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 62.59% | 665 | 9,875 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 37.03% | 394 | 14,131 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.38% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,063 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fled | 28 |
fled movie | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "FLED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | هرب (abscond, contraband, drive away, elope, escape, flee, fleeing, fly, get away, get out of, powder, put to flight, run away, run first, run from smb., run off, shun, slope, smuggle, take flight, take to one's heels, tamper, traffic, turn tail). (various references) | |
Chinese | 出逃 (flee, fleeing). (various references) | |
Czech | min.èas i příè.min. od flee. (various references) | |
French | fuite (flight). (various references) | |
German | gefüttert (fed), floh (flea). (various references) | |
Greek | φευγάτοσ (gone), φευγάτος (gone), αόρ. του flee. (various references) | |
Hungarian | menekül (to be on the run, to run for), megfutamodik (flee, to beat a retreat, to cop out, to flee, to run for), elmenekült. (various references) | |
Italian | pulce (flea). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 逃散 (farmers who abandoned their fields and fled to the cities or other districts to evade onerous taxes, fleeing in all directions). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | とうさん (bankruptcy, farmers who abandoned their fields and fled to the cities or other districts to evade onerous taxes, father, fleeing in all directions, insolvency), ちょうさん (farmers who abandoned their fields and fled to the cities or other districts to evade onerous taxes, fleeing in all directions). (various references) | |
Korean | 달아나는. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | edflay.(various references) | |
Romanian | trecut şi participiu trecut de la flee. (various references) | |
Russian | избегать;и)убегать (flee). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | proš. vreme i particip od flee. (various references) | |
Spanish | pret y pp de flee. (various references) | |
Swedish | flytt, flydde. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Mark Chapter 14, Verse 50 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai afenteV auton panteV efugon |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Tunc discipuli eius relinquentes eum omnes fugerunt |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Ða for-leten his leorning cnihtes eallehine & flugen. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Thanne alle hise disciplis forsoken hym, and fledden. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And they all forsoke him and ranne awaye. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And they all forsook him, and fled. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And they all forsook him, and fled. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And they all went away from him in fear. |
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| Language | Mark Chapter 14, Verse 50 |
| Cebuano | Ug ang iyang tanang mga tinun-an mitalikod kaniya ug nangalagiw. |
| Chinese | 門 徒 都 離 開 他 逃 走 了 。 |
| Croatian | I svi ga ostave i pobjegnu. |
| Danish | Og de forlode ham alle og flyede. |
| Dutch | En zij, Hem verlatende, zijn allen gevloden. |
| Finnish | Niin he kaikki jättivät hänet ja pakenivat. |
| French | Alors tous l`abandonnèrent, et prirent la fuite. |
| Gaelic | An sin a dheisciopuil ga threigsnin, theich iad uile. |
| German | Und die Jünger verließen ihn alle und flohen. |
| Haitian Creole | Lè sa a tout disip yo kite l', yo pran kouri. |
| Hungarian | Akkor elhagyván õt, mindnyájan elfutának. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Semua pengikut-Nya lari meninggalkan Yesus. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka larilah sekalian murid-Nya meninggalkan Dia. |
| Italian | Tutti allora, abbandonandolo, fuggirono. |
| Maori | Na whakarere ana ratou katoa i a ia, oma ana. |
| Norwegian | Da forlot de ham alle sammen og flydde. |
| Portuguese | Nisto, todos o deixaram e fugiram. |
| Rumanian | Atunci toyi ucenicii L-au pqrqsit wi au fugit. |
| Russian | фПЗДБ, ПУФБЧЙЧ еЗП, ЧУЕ ВЕЦБМЙ. |
| Shuar | Nuinkia ni unuiniamuri Niniak ikiuiniak pisararmiayi. |
| Spanish | Entonces todos los suyos le abandonaron y huyeron. |
| Swahili | Hapo wanafunzi wote wakamwacha, wakakimbia. |
| Swedish | Då övergåvo de honom alla och flydde. |
| Uma | Ngkai ree, metibo' -ramo hawe'ea ana'guru-na mpalahii-i. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "FLED": fledge, fledged, fledges, fledgier, fledgiest, fledging, fledgling, fledglings, fledgy. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "FLED": baffled, coffled, muffled, piffled, purfled, raffled, reshuffled, riffled, rifled, ruffled, scuffled, shuffled, skiffled, snaffled, sniffled, snuffled, souffled, stifled, trifled, truffled, unmuffled, unrifled, unruffled, waffled, whiffled. (additional references) | |
Words containing "FLED": unfledged. (additional references) | |
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"FLED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Eled, falad, fald, falde, faldi, fedd, feld, felde, fild, flad, fland, flde, fle, flead, fleb, flec, Fleds, fleed, fleg, flej, flek, fleld, Flem, flen, flend, flep, flewd, fley, flid, flind, flod, floed, flud, Fludd, flued, foed, foled, fued, fylde, tled. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "FLED" (pronounced fle"d) |
| 3 | -l e" d | bled, lead, led, misled, pled, sled. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: delf. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-f-l" | |
-1 letter: del, eld, elf, fed, led. | |
-2 letters: de, ed, ef, el. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-f-l" | |
+1 letter: delfs, delft, felid, field, filed, fjeld, flied, flued. | |
+2 letters: afield, deafly, defile, deflea, deftly, delfts, duffel, duffle, enfold, fabled, failed, fardel, felids, felled, felted, feudal, fiddle, fields, filled, filmed, fjelds, flaked, flamed, flared, flawed, flayed, fledge, fledgy, flexed, fleyed, flited, flowed, fluked, flumed, fluted, fluxed, flyted, foaled, fodgel, foiled, folded, folder, fondle, fooled, fouled, fowled, fuddle, fueled, fugled, fulled, furled, golfed, gulfed, leafed, lifted, loafed, lofted, luffed, malfed, medfly, refold, rifled, rolfed, selfed, wolfed. | |
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