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flew by

flew by is the simple past of fly by.

Meaning of fly by

Verb

fly by (third-person singular simple present flies by, present participle flying by, simple past flew by, past participle flown by)

  1. (idiomatic) To pass or go past quickly, often without much interaction
    • I like to sit and watch the world fly by.
    Synonyms:
    go by, pass by, forpass, forthglide, overgo, pass, roll on, slip by, transpass
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fly, by.

Questions about flew by

What is flew by the simple past of?
Flew by is the simple past of fly by.

Words near flew by in the dictionary

  1. flew a kite
  2. flew apart
  3. flew at
  4. flew baker
  5. flew blind
  6. flew by
  7. flew by the seat of one's pants
  8. flew high
  9. flew in
  10. flew in the face of
  11. flew into

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flew by (page history and authors); fly by (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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