(v. i.) To run away, as from danger or evil; to avoid in an alarmed or cowardly manner; to hasten off; -- usually with from. This is sometimes omitted, making the verb transitive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Businesses fleeing Brexit will head to New York not EU, warns LSE chief Read more Amid attempts by Frankfurt, Paris and Dublin to catch possible fallout from London, Sir Jon Cunliffe said it was highly unlikely that any EU centre could replicate the services offered by the UK’s financial services industry.
(2) Morel was arrested after his car was matched with one caught on camera fleeing the scene, and was involved in a hit-and-run with a cyclist 10 minutes after the shooting .
(3) Guzmán was sent to Altiplano high-security prison, 56 miles outside Mexico City, but in July 2015, he absconded again, squeezing through a hole in his shower floor then fleeing on a modified motorbike through a mile-long tunnel fitted with lights and a ventilation system.
(4) Photograph: Met police The three girls were interviewed in December by detectives about the whereabouts of their friend but were not themselves considered at risk of fleeing Britain.
(5) Even more haunting were stories from his wife's village, where the fleeing family found the bodies of her sister and an eight-year-old niece lying in pools of blood.
(6) 21 April 2009: Unicef says it faces a "human avalanche" of civilians fleeing the conflict .
(7) Young people with degrees are fleeing the country, leaving permanent skills gaps that will undermine any future recovery.
(8) Children with special needs also had to flee St Matthews parish hall during the attack on the Lower Newtownards Road.
(9) The archbishop of Irbil's Chaldean Catholics told the Observer fewer than 40 Christians remained in north-western Iraq after a jihadist rampage that has forced thousands to flee from Mosul and the Nineveh plains into Irbil in the Kurdish north.
(10) At one stage he even contemplated fleeing the country to avoid the obligations of serialisation.
(11) Speaking about the International Rescue Committee (IRC), the charity to which he is going, he said: "The organisation was founded at the suggestion of Albert Einstein in the 1930s for those fleeing the Nazis, so given my own family history there is an additional personal motivation for me.
(12) And he said yes, and I was so happy – I would have felt bad if he’d said no.” With the noose tightening around Aleppo, Masri says: “Aleppo is the final revenge against the city that was the cradle of the peaceful revolution - a genocide against everyone that does not flee all they have, and the graves of their families.
(13) Traditional media companies have been fleeing the US stock market to escape their low valuations.
(14) Many of those fleeing the violence currently live as refugees in Turkey.
(15) Obama said: “The people who are fleeing Syria are the most harmed by terrorism.
(16) In all likelihood, Congress will recess for the month of August without doing anything about the flood of children fleeing across our border ... and those children will just keep coming.
(17) But many other Eritreans have not been so lucky in their attempts to flee a country where President Isaias Afewerki – described as an "unhinged dictator" in the US embassy cables revealed by WikiLeaks – justifies the existence of his large army with the threat of a renewed conflict with Ethiopia, from which Eritrea gained independence in 1992.
(18) The Congolese army's campaign against the rebels has not progressed well, with troops fleeing when they hear of the approach of M23.
(19) Police said later that he fell to the ground while trying to flee with his hands cuffed behind his back and cracked his head on the ground.
(20) "While the state security forces in some instances intervened to prevent violence and protect fleeing Muslims, more frequently they stood aside during attacks or directly supported the assailants, committing killings and other abuses," said an HRW report released on Monday.
Scape
Definition:
(n.) A peduncle rising from the ground or from a subterranean stem, as in the stemless violets, the bloodroot, and the like.
(n.) The long basal joint of the antennae of an insect.
(n.) The shaft of a column.
(n.) The apophyge of a shaft.
(v. t. & i.) To escape.
(n.) An escape.
(n.) Means of escape; evasion.
(n.) A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.
(n.) Loose act of vice or lewdness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pertinent themes in the history of responses to epidemic disease in the United States in the past two hundred years include an initial underestimation of the severity of the epidemic; the prevalence of fear and anxiety; flight, denial, and scape-goating as a result of fear; efforts to quarantine and isolate carriers and the sick; the assertion of rational policies by coalitions of business, government, and medical leaders; the recruitment of a special cadre of physicians to treat the sick; the similarity of responses to both epidemic and endemic infectious diseases; and the high cost of epidemics, which is shared by government, philanthropy, and private individuals.
(2) Mycobacterium paratuberculosis was cultured from 9 (8.7%) of the 103 bovine fecal samples and from 4 (3.9%) of the 103 bovine rectal mucosa scapings tested.
(3) Within the scape of a comparative long-term study between conservative and operative therapy of Perthes'-disease the effort was made to estimate the dimension of the psychic and social detraction in addiction to the method of treatment by a detailed inquiry of 116 patients as well as of their accompanying parents.
(4) The Böhm bristles of Lepidoptera occur in precise areas of the scape and pedicel of the antenna.
(5) Perú doesn't scape of that situation and for this reason, it is necessary that health professionals should have clinical therapeutical and epidemiological acknowledgements in order to be applied efficiently in benefit of the community.
(6) The most productive tissues for propagation were inverted scapes and peduncles, cultured in a modified Murashige and Skoog salt solution with added organic constituents and 1 mg per 1 (4.5 micron) 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) and 1 mg per 1 (4.4 micrometer) 6-benzylaminopurine (BAP).
(7) Leaf bases, scapes, peduncles, inner bulb scales and ovaries were cultured successfully in vitro and plantlets were induced readily at various concentrations of growth regulators.
(8) Longitudinal peripheral meniscus tears were fixed by the scape in inside-out technique.
(9) If you can handle the monotony of the vast ice-scape that unfolds, it is possible to navigate a ship with a strong hull and a good lookout nearly to the north pole at this time of year.
(10) Your way of encouraging people to make their own music with your new app, Scape , is a good example of a different sort of approach to working.
(11) The results also suggest that segments of the typically three-segmented larval antenna of Holometabola are not scape, pedicel, and one-segmented flagellum; at least segments 2 and 3 are of flagellar origin.
(12) Best immediate results were obtained in vipomas and insulinomas but a scape phenomenon was frequently observed.
(13) Therefore, it seems that the delinquent adolescent is the scape-goat of the family.
(14) Within the scape of his life-history the attempt is made to portray a man in his time and to waken his importance as ophthalmologist a significant still in our days.
(15) Inevitably, the discussion, which takes place in Eno's office in Notting Hill, London, barely touches on the record, Lux ; instead, it ranges over another of his new creations (an app called Scape), the value of art, and why numbers are like sausages.
(16) An average of 10 rooted plantlets was obtained from each scape or peduncle explant on the shoot-propagating medium.
(17) But blaming the BBC is just scape-goating, since in every other country with no BBC, newspapers are in equally dire straights.
(18) Mechanosensory organs in the scape and pedicel, the Böhm bristles and Johnston's organ, are innervated by AChE-positive neurons.
(19) Ventricular scapes were not seen at the end of the sinus pauses.