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Synonym Collection v1.1

Main Entry:	fly
Part of Speech:	adjective
Synonyms:	(slang) wide-awake, knowing, volant, volitant

Synonym Collection v1.1
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Synonym Collection v1.1

Main Entry:	fly
Part of Speech:	noun
Synonyms:	aviation

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Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Main Entry:	fly
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	To move through the air with or as if with wings.
Synonyms:	flap, flit, flitter, flutter, sail, wing

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Main Entry:	fly
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	To pass quickly and lightly through the air.
Synonyms:	dart, float, sail, shoot, skim

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Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Main Entry:	fly
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	To react explosively or suddenly.
Synonyms:	flare

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Synonym Collection v1.1

Main Entry:	fly
Part of Speech:	verb
Synonyms:	abscond, barnstorm, circumnavigate, decamp, flee, flit, hedgehop, hover, mount, skirr, soar, volitate, wing

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Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Main Entry:	escape
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	To break loose and leave suddenly, as from confinement or from a difficult or threatening situation.
Synonyms:	abscond, break out, decamp, flee, get away, run away, blow, cut and run, give someone the slip, make a getaway, take flight, take it on the lam

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Main Entry:	flap
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	To move or cause to move about while being fixed at one edge.
Synonyms:	flutter, wave

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Main Entry:	rush
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	To move swiftly.
Synonyms:	bolt, bucket, bustle, dart, dash, festinate, flash, fleet, flit, haste, hasten, hurry, hustle, pelt, race, rocket, run, sail, scoot, scour, shoot, speed, sprint, tear, trot, whirl, whisk, whiz, wing, zip, zoom, get a move on, get cracking, go like lightning, go like the wind, hotfoot it, make haste, make time, make tracks, run like the wind, shake a leg, step

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition
by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary.
Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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