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Synonyms and Antonyms of flies
- the Wright brothers realized mankind's age-old wish to fly
- you must fly to safety immediately
avoids, eludes, evades, loses, shuns
decamps, departs, elopes, exits, goes, leaves, moves, pulls out, quits, sallies (forth), shoves (off), takes off, walks out
brings off, emancipates, enfranchises, frees, liberates, loosens, looses, manumits, redeems, releases, rescues, springs, unbinds, uncages, unchains, unfetters
- flew down the concourse to catch his flight
barrels, belts, blasts, blazes, blows, bolts, bombs [slang], bowls, breezes, bundles, bustles, buzzes, cannonballs, careens, careers, chases, courses, cracks (on), dashes, drives, hares, hastens, hies, highballs, hotfoots (it), humps, hurls, hurries, hurtles, hustles, jets, jumps, motors, nips, pelts, races, rams, rips, rockets, runs, rushes, rustles, scoots, scurries, scuttles, shoots, speeds, steps, tears, travels, trots, whirls, whisks, zips, zooms
- no one in the movies ever thinks to fly from the ax murderer and immediately call the police
absconds, clears out, decamps, elopes, escapes, gets (away), gets out, lams, lights out, makes off, mizzles [chiefly British], scarpers [British], scats, scrams, skips (out), skirrs
- the morning mist had flown, and a sparkling sea lay before us
- the familiar "Because I said so!" is a reason that won't fly with most teenagers
Learn More about flies
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Nglish: Translation of flies for Spanish speakers Britannica English: Translation of flies for Arabic speakers
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