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Synonyms for flee

The synonym for flee recorded in this bank is escape, in the sense "to run away from danger or threat". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 1, Foothills · 1 sense · verb · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The synonym for flee

  • escapeverb, in the sense "to run away from danger or threat"

That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and flee carries one sense so far.

The senseverbTier 1, FoothillsMovement

to run away from danger or threat

Villagers had to flee when the wildfire spread toward their homes.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

escape

Same sentence, swapped: Villagers had to escape when the wildfire spread toward their homes.

Close but different

Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.

  • panic
  • cope
  • adapt

Where flee turns up in the game

flee is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where flee is the trap

  • flyverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is wing, in the sense "travel through the air", with flee sitting one tile away.
  • stalkverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is shadow, in the sense "to pursue quarry stealthily", so flee is there to be ruled out.

Play flee

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so flee reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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A reason under every answer, not just a right answer

Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. flee carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.

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