Arrive and Flee

Arrive

Arrive verb - To get to a destination.
Usage example: when will the guests arrive?

Flee is an antonym for arrive.

Nearby Words: arrival, arrived, arriving

Flee

Flee verb - To cease to be visible.
Usage example: the fog fled with the arrival of the dawn

Arrive is an antonym for flee in run away to escape topic.

Nearby Word: fleeing

Common collocations

place arrive place flee place
village arrive village flee village
death arrive death flee death
way arrive way flee way
Other words: earth, building, home, fight, ship, palace, police, town, masse.

Both words in one sentence

  • Film / My Cousin Vinny Minutes after Stan and Bill leave a convenience stores, two similar looking men, in a similar looking car, arrive, rob and shoot the clerk, and flee.
  • Series / Vikings When Emperor Charles is introduced, he wants to flee Paris before the Vikings arrive, but is equally scared of what his lords will think.
  • Comic Book / Batman: Year One Gordon says he's blind without his glasses, and tells Batman to flee the scene before the cops arrive.
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