0 to escape by running away, especially because of danger or fear: --
1 to escape by running away, esp. because of danger or fear: --
Men fleeing from a critical world and their own eyes.
As the occupants of the chateaux fled eastwards, it was immobile occupants of the cottages who bore the brunt.
He abandoned everyone else to their fate and fled to safety.
They expected that those who fled would be unemployed and dependent on soup kitchens.
Moreover, individual workers, despite their debts and contractual obligations, often fled the plantation districts.
Shut out and denied, this violence fled in two directions: into the future, and into the landscape.
Rumors abounded : black teachers had fled ; black schools were closed ; black maids had quit the homes of white people.
Most fled in terror or hid in the foul muck.
