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flown by

flown by is the past participle 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 flown by

What is flown by the past participle of?
Flown by is the past participle of fly by.

Words near flown by in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flown 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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