verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
flee in terror
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The children fled in terror as the barn caught fire.
flee the country (= leave it very quickly to avoid trouble )
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At the outbreak of the war, many people fled the country.
flee/escape across the border
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Over 100,000 civilians fled across the border.
flee/escape into exile
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Hundreds of people fled into exile or were jailed.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
abroad
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He decided that he had no alternative but to flee abroad .
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More than a million fled abroad , often at their peril.
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Some of his companions died with him, a few fled abroad , but most took refuge in Kenilworth Castle in Warwickshire.
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Over 140,000 refugees had fled abroad .
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John and other members of the family fled abroad , some to Virginia, others to the Continent.
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His military adviser, Kleandridas, fled abroad , and was condemned to death in his absence.
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Achym fled abroad to avoid the consequences of his crime.
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Harry Dubar, who resigned and fled abroad in late June.
back
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He made such noisy protestations that his nervous owner fled back into the waiting-room.
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I fled back to the privacy of my own room to retch and vomit.
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The two white men fled back to the settlements.
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Izanagi fled back to the earth's surface, pursued by an army of thunder gods and headless warriors.
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Dara fled back to Agra and set off on the road to Delhi without daring to face his father.
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We fled back down the streets holding hands.
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The Xingu man fled back to the forest, unable to believe that anyone could wish to live in such a place.
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Unsuitably dressed and squealing in the nippy air, the girls ran round like chickens before fleeing back to the cars.
■ NOUN
area
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Many flee rural areas for the relative safety of the cities, particularly Bogota.
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Hundreds of thousands of people are reported to have fled the area .
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Major employers like General Motors, Goodyear, and Firestone had fled the area .
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More than 80,000 people fled the area around Taloqan as the fighting grew closer.
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For decades, sports teams tried to solve their financial problems by fleeing urban areas for squeaky-clean suburbs.
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The town contains about 70,000 people of whom 30,000 have fled from other areas .
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As many as 10,000 civilians were reported to have fled the area .
border
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It reveals how thousands of Shias have fled across the border to escape.
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The raids caused 26,000 refugees to flee across the border to the neighboring region of Ingushetia.
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Countless unarmed civilians fleeing to the borders were killed by helicopter gunships.
city
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He has since fled to another city .
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An army officer tells Suyuan to flee the city .
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At night, lit from within, she looked like a stricken ghost, fleeing the city of glittering towers.
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The top spot goes to the candidate whose petitions are fled first with the city clerk.
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Some 100,000 civilians had fled the city .
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Many wounded persons were treated and hidden by their families, while still other wounded men fled the city .
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They were victorious; the conquered Thebans fled and their city was leveled to the ground.
country
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By the end of 1995 foreign money was pouring back into most of the countries it had hastily fled .
family
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If the nest is disturbed and she decides the family should flee , the youngsters behave in an extremely disciplined way.
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The family fled to Hong Kong just after the War, when the Communists were coming to power.
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Since Christmas, 10 families have fled the town fearing they will be the next targets.
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Maybe the family fled after the flood, or maybe they had all been drowned.
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John and other members of the family fled abroad, some to Virginia, others to the Continent.
fear
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To flee; to flee through fear .
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Failure indicates that the Ogre has fled in fear of its life.
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The original case was brought by three men who said they fled Pak istan in fear for their lives or from persecution.
home
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It had been his only possession when he had fled his home as it burned.
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Residents stood shivering in the chilly night air as Red Cross officials scrambled to find them lodging after they fled their homes .
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The dynamic of the tale is simple: a man flees his home and lives in exile by the sea.
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Teachers, nurses and farmers have fled their rural homes hoping to find safety in the cities.
house
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Miriam, unable to endure this harrowing sight a moment longer, had fled from the tiger house .
man
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The dynamic of the tale is simple: a man flees his home and lives in exile by the sea.
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The men fled in a car and could be armed with assault rifles, said Capt.
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The two white men fled back to the settlements.
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About 50 people were wounded and 50 of Jess's men had to flee .
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Witnesses reported seeing a couple of men fleeing the scene.
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Young men have fled to town for work.
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Many wounded persons were treated and hidden by their families, while still other wounded men fled the city.
others
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Why he and others wished to flee was obvious to the world.
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One night, inevitably, one of the sick died, and the next morning, the others fled .
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An ex-girlfriend has borrowed a gun. Others have fled town.
people
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There he campaigned in favour of the increasing numbers of people fleeing the Pyongyang regime.
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When people flee , they deprive the organization of their expertise and experience, while at the same time undermining its reputation.
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Executions resumed, and hundreds of people fled into exile or were jailed.
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There was no place to buy food, find water, and the roads were clogged with people also fleeing town.
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At least 60, 000 people who fled levee breaks on the Feather River remained shut out of their homes.
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Police had raided nearby Jagannath Hall in Dhaka University and people were fleeing the campus.
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Fleeing the Organization Less overtly heroic than those who fight the dysfunctional organization are the people who choose to flee from it.
police
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Both groups fled before police arrived.
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They put the baby on a bed before fleeing , police said.
refugee
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The ferry was packed with refugees fleeing sectarian violence in the Moluccas.
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You see refugees fleeing war zones with less baggage.
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Of the more than 1,000 refugees who fled last week, not one is known to have helped identify the guerrillas.
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At the time, refugees fled in every direction.
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In the ensuing riot, a hut containing refugees seeking to flee the violence, mainly northerners, was set on fire.
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The raids caused 26,000 refugees to flee across the border to the neighboring region of Ingushetia.
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Over 140,000 refugees had fled abroad.
resident
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The respectable residents have long since fled to the suburbs to escape the inner city pathologies.
room
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Her eyes blazed at him as she fled to her room .
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They sometimes even keep talking after their audience has fled the room .
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I forced a smile and then turned and fled to my room .
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Perdita cried unashamedly after they left, fleeing to her bare room and hurling herself down on the pink counterpane.
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Even the cat hid from him, fleeing from room to room as he passed through the house.
scene
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The young gunman was on a truck fleeing the scene of a shoot-out with marines in Mogadishu.
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Prosecutors contend that McVeigh used the Mercury as a getaway car to flee the scene of the bombing five days later.
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Most urban visitors will flee the scene and never return.
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Bluechel, unharmed, fled the scene , a bullet knocking off his cap as he ran.
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Witnesses reported seeing a couple of men fleeing the scene .
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Gang leaders fled the scene , and all traces of rancour and suspicion vanished with them.
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He fled the scene on foot, but turned up several hours later at Summit Medical Center.
terror
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Its people flee in terror on tractors, horse-drawn carts, cars or on foot.
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Instead, we imprisoned thousands of skilled people, and thousands more fled in terror .
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There was a whisper amongst the servants that she had fled from Andrew in terror on the night of her return.
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They fled in terror back across the frontier.
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A violent and sudden earthquake is said to have toppled a nearby hill, causing the torturers to flee in terror .
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After entering the cave, Hawk senses such awesome power that he flees in terror .
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But the government, in pursuit of high-minded ideals, has created a bureaucratic monster before which small business-people flee in terror .
thousands
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It reveals how thousands of Shias have fled across the border to escape.
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Instead, we imprisoned thousands of skilled people, and thousands more fled in terror.
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Hundreds of thousands of civilians fled .
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Tens of thousands fled into exile.
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Hundreds of thousands of people have fled the Moluccas and tens of thousands are sheltering in camps in the region.
war
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They fled the civil war there a year ago.
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You see refugees fleeing war zones with less baggage.
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They had fled away to war , to that dream of a ghostly battle elsewhere.
■ VERB
force
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Should its enemies be destroyed or forced to flee the Squig is free to start bouncing again.
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Thousands of Nuba were forced to flee as government soldiers scaled the mountains, destroying almost 2,500 homes and burning food stores.
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At the beginning, the Sioux forced him to flee Chequamegon Bay.
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He gathered what money he had just in case Gallagher was forced to flee .
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He was overthrown in a coup in 1991 and forced to flee the country, but that only fed his popularity.
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He said that up to 1,000 guerrillas were trying to rout or encircle government posts to force defenders to flee .
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Families forced to flee during the conflict have yet to return.
report
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They were reported to have fled the camps and were said to be attempting to return to their homes.
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He is reported to flee from class when the door is opened.
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Sigua was reported to have fled to the rebel headquarters in a Komsomol summer camp outside Tbilisi to avoid arrest.
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The signalman and stationmaster from Gaisal are reported to have fled immediately after the accident.
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Hundreds of thousands of people are reported to have fled the area.
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As many as 10,000 civilians were reported to have fled the area.
try
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Others flared like candles as they tried to flee .
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Of course, the boy was frightened and tried to flee , but the sorcerer grabbed him and hit him.
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The king had tried to flee the country in June 1791, and had been ignominiously brought back under guard.
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Police feared that du Pont might try to flee through a series of tunnels beneath the house.
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It will be picked off when fear makes it try to flee .
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The driver was arrested after he crashed into a parked vehicle and tried to flee on foot.
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Finally it lost a wheel on a roundabout and passers-by grabbed the two as they tried to flee .
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Neighbors say Flor was shot first, and Smith tried to flee .
turn
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Her first impulse was to turn and flee .
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As the pair drew near he turned and fled .
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I turned , about to flee , about to deny my name, about toThe man looked familiar.
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But as he turned to flee , Derek slumped at the wheel, clutching his chest.
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The Federals halted, turned , and fled , our friends crossing the railroad and pursuing them.
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She stifled a desire to turn and flee , wondering what was wrong with her.
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If charged by a powerful enemy they can turn and flee away, hopefully regrouping for a later return.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Most of the women there were Somalis fleeing from the civil war.
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Rollins tried to flee the country but was stopped at the airport.
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Up to five million political refugees have fled to other countries.
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When police arrived, the two men fled.
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When they saw the police car, his attackers turned and fled.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Episcopal persecution, however, drove them to flee to the relative anonymity of London at the end of the 1620s.
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He gathered what money he had just in case Gallagher was forced to flee .
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The temblor sent thousands of office workers in Seattle fleeing into the streets.