English dictionary

Hint: Click 'Bookmark' to add this page to your favorites.

English *verb*: take flight
1.	take flight (motion) run away quickly
		Samples	He threw down his gun and fled.
		Synonyms	flee, fly
		Pattern of use	Somebody ----s. Somebody ----s PP
		Broader (hypernym)	break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, lam, run, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail
		Narrower (hyponym)	abscond, absquatulate, bolt, break, break loose, decamp, defect, desert, elope, escape, get away, go off, high-tail, make off, run off, run off, stampede

Recent queries