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TAKE FLIGHT
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Run away quickly
Example:
He threw down his gun and fled
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "take flight" is one way to...):
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 (flee; take to one's heels; cut and run)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "take flight"):
break (make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing)
stampede (run away in a stampede)
abscond; absquatulate; bolt; decamp; go off; make off; run off (run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along)
elope; run off (run away secretly with one's beloved)
break loose; escape; get away (run away from confinement)
high-tail; hightail (retreat at full speed)
defect; desert (desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
