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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.
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Flee

To run away, as from trouble or danger
Fled from the house into the night.
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Fled

Past tense and past participle of flee.
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Flee

To pass swiftly away; vanish
"of time fleeing beneath him" (William Faulkner).
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Fled

Simple past tense and past participle of flee
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Flee

To run away from
Flee the scene of an accident.
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Flee

(intransitive) To run away; to escape.
The prisoner tried to flee, but was caught by the guards.
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Flee

(transitive) To escape from.
Many people fled the country as war loomed.
Thousands of people moved northward trying to flee the drought.
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Flee

(intransitive) To disappear quickly; to vanish.
Ethereal products flee once freely exposed to air.
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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.
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Flee

Run away quickly;
He threw down his gun and fled
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