Flee vs Shirk - What's the difference?
flee | shirk |
(label) To run away; to escape.
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, 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.
To avoid, especially a duty, responsibility, etc.; to stay away from.
* Hare
To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away.
* Byron
To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.
* Bishop Rainbow
As verbs the difference between flee and shirk
is that flee is (label) to run away; to escape while shirk is to avoid, especially a duty, responsibility, etc; to stay away from.As a noun shirk is
one who shirks or shirk can be (islam) the unforgivable sin of idolatry.flee
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Anagrams
* * English irregular verbs ----shirk
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Etymology 1
First attested use in 1625 – 1635, apparently from association with shark (verb form), or from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- the usual makeshift by which they try to shirk difficulties
- If you have a job, don't shirk from it by staying off work.
- One of the cities shirked from the league.
- You that never heard the call of any vocation, that shirk living from others, but time from yourselves.