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  1. v. idiomatic To fly; to become aloft, to become airborne; to take off (the ground)
  2. v. idiomatic to flee

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. run away quickly

Examples

  • “When her companions see that her feather-suit is stolen, they will take flight and leave her to thee, and beware lest thou show thyself to them, but wait till they have flown away and she despaireth of them: whereupon do thou go in to her and hale her by the hair of her head68 and drag her to thee; which being done, she will be at thy mercy.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

  • “They start on Monday week, and I shall certainly be very forlorn until the middle of January, when I think I shall take flight sunward myself, and pursue them to Rome.”

    Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters

  • “Then, as she was about to take flight for her own land, she bethought her of Hasan and said, “Hark ye, my mistresses!” and she improvised these couplets,94”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

  • ““we will all take flight at once and whichsoever shall soar above the rest in his flying, he shall be accepted of us as ruler and be made King over us.””

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

  • “She tried to take flight and escape, but Tol’chuk dragged her by a wing back to the mud and grass.”

    Wit'ch Storm

  • “It gave Mademoiselle Dupuis nearly as much celebrity as her lover attained, for when the end came, she obeyed his desire to play a favorite dance on her harp, to enable his soul to take flight in the midst of its delicious harmony.”

    Ninon de L'Enclos the Celebrated Beauty of the 17th Century

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