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Take flight Moderate

Origin: Germanic Old English suffix

Take flight has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Verb

Definitions
Verb
1

run away quickly

"He threw down his gun and fled"

2

To begin flying; to become airborne or aloft; to take off and fly

See Also
fly take off aloft flee airborne
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
scat
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
break stampede abscond elope escape high-tail defect
Rhyming Words
ght ight ought dight bight tight fight eight night might light pight aught hight aight right wight sight voight blight
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