Fled vs Scape - What's the difference?
fled | scape |
(flee)
(label) To run away; to escape.
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title=
, 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.
(botany) a leafless stalk growing directly out of a root
the lowest part of an insect's antenna
(architecture) the shaft of a column
(architecture) The apophyge of a shaft.
(archaic) to escape
*17th century , John Donne, Elegy IX: The Autumnal :
*:No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
*:As I have seen in one autumnal face.
*:Young beauties force our love, and that's a rape,
*:This doth but counsel, yet you cannot scape .
(archaic) escape
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) A means of escape; evasion.
(obsolete) A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.
* Milton
(obsolete) A loose act of vice or lewdness.
As verbs the difference between fled and scape
is that fled is (flee) while scape is (archaic) to escape.As a noun scape is
(botany) a leafless stalk growing directly out of a root or scape can be (archaic) escape.fled
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* ----flee
English
Verb
“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./4/2
Anagrams
* * English irregular verbs ----scape
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
Formed by aphesis from escape . (etystub)Verb
(scap)Noun
(en noun)- I spake of most disastrous chances, Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach.
- (Donne)
- Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance.
- (Shakespeare)