FLED

Definition: FLED

FLED

1. Imp. & p. p. of Flee.

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Flee

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "FLED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Escape

Adjective:.escaping, escaped; Verb: stolen away, fled.

Crosswords: FLED

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)

False Frank fled Flo Friday. (references; author: unknown)

But Now They Are Fled (1971)

The Parson Who Fled West (1915)

Fled (1996)

Books

• Beauty in Exile: The Artists, Models, and Nobility Who Fled the Russian Revolution and Influenced the World of Fashion (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Fled (reference)

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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.

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)

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

She fled for refuge, as it were, to the public exposure, and dreaded the moment when its protection should be withdrawn from her.

He had remained standing, and had not changed his attitude since the child fled.

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

Know, my loving lord, The Marquis Dorset, as I hear, is fled To Richmond, in the parts where he abides

The Mexicans were weak and fled.

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)

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)

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)

Misspellings

"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)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: delf.

-1 letter: del, eld, elf, fed, led.

-2 letters: de, ed, ef, el.

+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.