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fley

UK/fleɪ/

fley verb: to frighten.

Verb

fley (third-person singular simple present fleys, present participle fleying, simple past and past participle fleyed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To frighten.
    • The Jack O'Lanthron was among the reeds again last night, and some of my neighbours are sore fleyed.1860, James Phillips Kay, Scarsdale; or, Life on the Lancashire and Yorkshire border
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To be frightened.

fley meaning in Urdu and Bengali

fley in Urdu

ڈرانا

fley in Bengali

ভীত করা, ভীত হওয়া

Forms of fley

third-person singular presentfleys
present participlefleying
past participlefleyed
pastfleyed

Origin of fley

From Middle English fleyen, from Old English flīeġan.

Words that rhyme with fley

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Questions about fley

What does fley mean?
Fley means to frighten.
What is fley in Urdu?
Fley in Urdu is ڈرانا. See Fley meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is fley?
Fley is a verb.
How do you pronounce fley?
Fley is pronounced /fleɪ/ (UK).
What is the past tense of fley?
The past tense of fley is fleyed.

Words near fley in the dictionary

  1. flexuring
  2. flexus
  3. flexwing
  4. flexwings
  5. flexy
  6. fley
  7. fleyed
  8. fleying
  9. fleys
  10. fleyshik
  11. fleyshiks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fley (page history and authors); fley (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fley (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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