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Antonyms for flown
Grammar : Verb |
Spell : flohn |
Phonetic Transcription : floʊn |
Definition of flown
Origin :- past participle of fly (v.).
- verb take to the air, usually employing wings
- verb run or pass swiftly
- verb escape, flee
- He was blanketing his horse, and Isabel had flown into the sitting-room.
- Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
- How the bright years have flown Since I was a child scarce to maidenhood grown!
- Extract from : « Grandma's Memories » by Mary D. Brine
- For Barnaby himself, the time which had flown by, had passed him like the wind.
- Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens
- Ah, for the voice that has flown away like a bird to an unknown shore!
- Extract from : « A Singer from the Sea » by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
- The blood had flown violently to his neck, which was burning him.
- Extract from : « Therese Raquin » by Emile Zola
- I think of that empty sheath I saw, and wonder where the soul has flown.
- Extract from : « Things as They Are » by Amy Wilson-Carmichael
- Now in our time of need the Colonies have flown to our side.
- Extract from : « War Letters of a Public-School Boy » by Paul Jones.
- They had flown back to their little mistress and their home.
- Extract from : « Harper's Young People, August 31, 1880 » by Various
- However, the birds were flown, and I had no doubt that they had gone to hear mass.
- Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
- But the flock of night birds had not flown out into the sun.
- Extract from : « Dwellers in the Hills » by Melville Davisson Post
Synonyms for flown
- abscond
- aviate
- avoid
- barnstorm
- barrel
- bend the throttle
- bolt
- break
- breeze
- buzz
- career
- circle
- circumnavigate
- clear
- clear out
- climb
- control
- cross
- cut and run
- dart
- dash
- decamp
- disappear
- dive
- drift
- elapse
- flat-hat
- flee
- fleet
- flit
- float
- flutter
- get away
- glide
- go like the wind
- hasten
- hasten away
- hide
- hightail
- hop
- hover
- hurry
- hustle
- jet
- jet out
- jet over
- light out
- make a getaway
- make a quick exit
- make off
- maneuver
- mount
- operate
- pass
- pilot
- race
- reach
- remain aloft
- roll
- run
- run for it
- run from
- run its course
- rush
- sail
- scamper
- scoot
- scud
- seagull
- shoot
- skedaddle
- skim
- skip
- skirt
- sky out
- slip away
- soar
- speed
- sprint
- steal away
- swoop
- take a hop
- take flight
- take off
- take wing
- tear
- travel
- whisk
- whiz
- whoosh
- wing
- wing in
- withdraw
- zip
- zoom
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