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Fleed vs Flees - What's the difference?

fleed | flees |

As verbs the difference between fleed and flees

is that fleed is (nonstandard) (flee) while flees is (flee).

As a noun fleed

is the internal fat of a pig before it is melted into lard.

fleed

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(-)
  • The internal fat of a pig before it is melted into lard.
  • *1924 , (Ford Madox Ford), Some Do Not…'', Penguin 2012 (''Parade's End ), p. 134:
  • *:Every Tenterden market day he used to sell fleed cakes from a basket to the carts that went by.

    • Etymology 2

    Inflected forms.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (nonstandard) (flee)

    • flees

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (flee)

    • Anagrams

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    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.

    • Related terms

    * flight

    Anagrams

    * * English irregular verbs ----