Flies Synonyms and Antonyms

flīz
Escape, flee
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. escapes
  2. lams
  3. flees
  4. decamps
  5. absconds
Antonyms:
  1. confronts
  2. faces
  3. remains
  4. stays
Travel through the air; be airborne
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. sails
  2. skims
  3. flaps
  4. plummets
  5. floats
  6. circles
  7. flutters
  8. shoots
  9. drifts
  10. flits
  11. swoops
  12. darts
  13. wings
  14. hovers
  15. glides
  16. soars
To move or cause to move about while being fixed at one edge
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. waves
  2. flutters
  3. flaps
A hook baited artificially
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. minnows
  2. lures
A ball batted into the air
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. hoists
  2. boosts
  3. fungoes
An insect
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. bugs

Words Related to Flies

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Flies Sentence Examples

  • He turns into a bird in his hands and flies away.

  • Can flies know not to bite?

  • Pliny knew that flies emerge from galls.

  • He flies to Persia, evades the pursuers whom Astyages sends after him, and begins the rebellion.

  • The apparatus when liberated flies into the air sometimes to a height of 50 ft., and gyrates in large circles for a period varying from 15 to 30 seconds.

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