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Definition of Take flight
1. Verb. Run away quickly. "He threw down his gun and fled"
Specialized synonyms: Break, Stampede, Abscond, Absquatulate, Bolt, Decamp, Go Off, Make Off, Run Off, Elope, Run Off, Break Loose, Escape, Get Away, High-tail, Defect, Desert
Generic synonyms: 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
Derivative terms: Fleer, Flight
Definition of Take flight
1. Verb. (idiomatic) To fly; to become aloft, to become airborne; to take off (the ground) ¹
2. Verb. (idiomatic) to flee ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Take Flight
Literary usage of Take flight
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of Wilhelmine, Margravine of Baireuth by Wilhelmine, Helena Augusta Victoria (1888)
"I knew of this messenger, but I have never learned what the contents of the
letters he brought were. lie answered at once that he intended to B take flight ..."
2. Wessex by Clive Holland (1906)
"take flight to the Continent. His route was so devious that for many months after
his capture the authorities were unable to trace it. ..."
3. The Birds of Maine: With Key to and Description of the Various Species Known by Ora Willis Knight (1908)
"The birds skulk through the marsh grass and do not take flight until forced to
do so by danger. The nest is usually placed on the ground in a tussock of ..."
4. The Court of France in the Sixteenth Century, 1514-1559 by Catherine Charlotte Jackson (1886)
"—The Fathers take Flight.—The Capture of Metz.—A Perilous Position.—The Castle
of Ehrenberg taken.—Flight of the Emperor.—On the Banks of the Rhine. ..."
5. The Birds of Jamaica: Being a History of the Bird, Its Structure, and Habits by Philip Henry Gosse, Alfred Edmund Brehm, Richard Hill (1874)
"... as we will state farther on, compelled by force to take flight at the proper
moment. Many birds show their intelligence by the manner in which they take ..."
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