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Escaped vs Fled - What's the difference?

escaped | fled |

As verbs the difference between escaped and fled

is that escaped is past tense of escape while fled is past tense of flee.

As an adjective escaped

is that or who has escaped, especially from prison or another place of confinement.

escaped

English

Verb

(head)
  • (escape)
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • That or who has escaped, especially from prison or another place of confinement.
  • People are being warned not to approach the escaped prisoner.

    fled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (flee)
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    flee

    English

    Verb

  • (label) To run away; to escape.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title= “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./4/2
  • , passage=As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.}}
  • (label) To escape from.
  • (label) To disappear quickly; to vanish.
  • Anagrams

    * * English irregular verbs ----