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Flee vs Slink - What's the difference?

flee | slink |

As a verb flee

is (label) to run away; to escape.

As a noun slink is

snail.

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 ----

    slink

    English

    Verb

  • To sneak about furtively.
  • * Milton
  • Back to the thicket slunk the guilty serpent.
  • * Landor
  • There were some few who slank obliquely from them as they passed.
  • * '>citation
  • To give birth to an animal prematurely.
  • a cow that slinks her calf

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The young of an animal when born prematurely, especially a calf.
  • (UK, Scotland, dialect) A thievish fellow; a sneak.
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (Scotland) thin; lean
  • Anagrams

    * English irregular verbs ----