Arrive
Arrive verb - To get to a destination.
Usage example: when will the guests arrive?
Flee
Flee verb - To cease to be visible.
Usage example: the fog fled with the arrival of the dawn
Nearby Word: fleeing
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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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.
Source: Film / My Cousin Vinny -
When Emperor Charles is introduced, he wants to flee Paris before the Vikings arrive, but is equally scared of what his lords will think.
Source: Series / Vikings -
Gordon says he's blind without his glasses, and tells Batman to flee the scene before the cops arrive.
Source: Comic Book / Batman: Year One
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