Fled vs. Flee — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Fled and Flee
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Fled
Fled is a 1996 American buddy action comedy film directed by Kevin Hooks. It stars Laurence Fishburne and Stephen Baldwin as two prisoners chained together who flee during an escape attempt gone bad.
Flee
To run away, as from trouble or danger
Fled from the house into the night.
Fled
Past tense and past participle of flee.
Flee
To pass swiftly away; vanish
"of time fleeing beneath him" (William Faulkner).
Fled
Simple past tense and past participle of flee
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Flee
To run away from
Flee the scene of an accident.
Flee
(intransitive) To run away; to escape.
The prisoner tried to flee, but was caught by the guards.
Flee
(transitive) To escape from.
Many people fled the country as war loomed.
Thousands of people moved northward trying to flee the drought.
Flee
(intransitive) To disappear quickly; to vanish.
Ethereal products flee once freely exposed to air.
Flee
To run away, as from danger or evil; to avoid in an alarmed or cowardly manner; to hasten off; - usually with from. This is sometimes omitted, making the verb transitive.
[He] cowardly fled, not having struck one stroke.
Flee fornication.
So fled his enemies my warlike father.
Flee
Run away quickly;
He threw down his gun and fled
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