Definition of "fled" []

• Past tense and past participle of flee. (verb)

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• "Yams and sweet potatoes seem to have fled from the soil, for they come not."
• "Already the people had fled from the city by millions -- at first the rich, in their private motor-cars and dirigibles, and then the great mass of the population, on foot, carrying the plague with them, themselves starving and pillaging the farmers and all the towns and villages on the way."
• "That 28 people died at their own hand, preferring this to being returned, when their asylum application failed, to the country they fled, is a terrible indictment of British justice."