Take Flight

Definition: Take Flight

Take Flight

Verb

1. To run away: "He threw down his gun and fled.".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Take Flight

Avoidance

Beat a retreat; turn tail, turn one's back; take to one's heels; runaway, run for one's life; cut and run; be off like a shot; fly, flee; fly away, flee away, run away from; take flight, take to flight; desert, elope; make off, scamper off, sneak off, shuffle off, sheer off; break away, tear oneself away, slip away, slink away, steel away, make away from, scamper away from, sneak away from, shuffle away from, sheer away from; slip cable, part company, turn one's heel; sneak out of, play truant, give one the go by, give leg bail, take French leave, slope, decamp, flit, bolt, abscond, levant, skedaddle, absquatulate, cut one's stick, walk one's chalks, show a light pair of heels, make oneself scarce; escape; go away; (depart); abandon; reject.

Departure

Leave a place, quit, vacate, evacuate, abandon; go off the stage, make one's exit; retire, withdraw, remove; vamoose, vamose; go one's way, go along, go from home; take flight, take wing; spring, fly, flit, wing one's flight; fly away, whip away; embark; go on board, go aboard; set sail' put to sea, go to sea; sail, take ship; hoist blue Peter; get under way, weigh anchor; strike tents, decamp; walk one's chalks, cut one's stick; take leave; say good bye, bid goodbye; Noun: disappear; abscond; (avoid); entrain; inspan.

Crosswords: Take Flight

I know you're not supposed to be jealous of anything, butto take flight, to soar above everything and everyone, now that's living. (O; writing credit: Brad Kaaya)

Take flight like eagles (Can't Nobody; performing artist: Nate Dogg)

Four Phoenixes Take Flight (1948)

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Books

• Air Vagabond: Where Wanderlust and Danger Take Flight (reference)

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Albanian

arratisem (break, break out, decamp, elope, escape, evade, run off, scat, scoot, sling one's hook, take away). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فر (abscond, bolt, break away, decamp, elope, escape, flee, flight, fly, get away, get free, get off, run away, run off, slope, take to one's heels), ‏هرب (abscond, contraband, drive away, elope, escape, fled, 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 to one's heels, tamper, traffic, turn tail). (various references)

Bulgarian 

избягвам (abscond, break loose, break out, circumnavigate, dodge, elope, elude, escape, evade, gallop away, get away, get off, get out, go off, make a break for it, mizzle, obviate, prevent, run, run away, run off, scarper, scuttle away, shrink away, shun, skirt around, skitter). (various references)

French

sauter avec élan, prendre la fuite. (various references)

Hebrew 

לברוח (escape, flee, fling off, get away, make haste, make off, run, run away, run off, scamper, take to ones heels, turn tail). (various references)

Hungarian

elrepül (fly away, fly off, to blow off, to take wing). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

敗走 (take to one's heels). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

はいそう (delivery, running backwards, take to one's heels). (various references)

Pig Latin

aketay ightflay

Russian 

убегать (ran away, run, run away, turn tail). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pobeći (break out, elope, escape, flee, get away, make off, run, run away, run off). (various references)

Spanish

escaparse (abscond, bilk, break away, break out, escape, flee, get away, get out, leak, leak out, make tracks, run away, sling one's hook, take to one's heels, wriggle, wriggle out), escapar (break away, drive hard, elope, escape, flee, get away, get off, let off, ride hard, run away). (various references)

Turkish

tüymek (bolt, bunk, flee, hook it, make a bolt for it, make oneself scarce, pull out, scuttle, sheer off, skedaddle, skip out, slink off, slip off, take a powder, take wing), kaçmak (abscond, blow, bolt, break, break away, bunk, clear off, decamp, defect, desert, elope, escape, fade, flee, fly, fly away, get away, go by, hook it, ladder, Lam, lapse, leg it, light out, make a bolt for it, make off, nip off, pack up, pull out, retreat, run, run away, run off, scamper away, scoot, scuttle, skip, skip it, skip out, slip, slip off, slope off, travel, walk off), firar etmek (desert the colors, desert the colours, escape, fly, run away, run off). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: liftgate.

-3 letters: fatlike, glaiket, hatlike, taglike.

-4 letters: aiglet, alight, fetial, flight, gelati, halite, khalif, kittel, kittle, ligate, talkie.

-5 letters: agile, aglet, alike, atilt, eight, faith, fetal, fight, filet, filth, flake, flite, kalif, kithe, laigh, laith, lathe, lathi, latke, latte, legit, light, lithe, telia, theft, theta, thief, tight, tilak, tilth, tithe, title.