fled

American  

[fled] / flɛd /

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of flee.

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fled British  

/ flɛd /

verb

1. the past tense and past participle of flee 1

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Example Sentences

The two met later that year when Michelangelo fled Florence.

From The Wall Street Journal

After finishing the ugly job assigned to him, Cyril Radcliffe burned all his papers, refused his handsome fee of 40,000 rupees and fled the subcontinent.

From The Wall Street Journal

A refugee from the Sino-Japanese War who fled mainland China to Hong Kong, he started a business in 1950 manufacturing plastic flowers and named it Cheung Kong after China's Yangtze River.

From Barron's

Talankin, who fled his home — first for Turkey, then the Czech Republic — is, for the moment, no longer “Mr. Nobody,” but as Borenstein notes, “He sacrificed his whole life to do this.”

From Los Angeles Times

A US immigration judge on Wednesday granted asylum to a Chinese man who fled his country after documenting sites of alleged human rights abuses against Uyghurs, his mother and lawyer told AFP.

From Barron's