Past tense of flee
irregular verb
The past tense of flee is fled. The past participle is also fled.
Forms of flee
| Base form (V1) | flee /ˈfliː/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | fled /ˈflɛd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | fled /ˈflɛd/ |
| Present participle | fleeing /ˈfliːɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | flees /ˈfliːz/ |
Less standard forms: fleed (nonstandard).
Fled in a sentence
- As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./4/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
- Many people fled the country as war loomed.
- During the Vietnam War, thousands of draft dodgers fled to Canada to avoid serving.From the entry draft dodger
- When I saw her I fled on the spot man, me and her are opps.From the entry opp
- A rangale fled across the road just a few feet in front of my car.From the entry rangale
Meaning of flee
- verb To run away; to escape.
- verb To escape from.
- verb To disappear quickly; to vanish; to fleet.
Verbs like flee
Questions about the past tense of flee
- What is the past tense of flee?
- The past tense of flee is fled.
- What is the past participle of flee?
- The past participle of flee is fled.
- Is flee a regular or irregular verb?
- Flee is an irregular verb: its past tense is not formed with -ed.
- Is fleed correct?
- fleed is marked nonstandard in Wiktionary. The usual past tense of flee is fled.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: flee (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this page: “Past tense of flee.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/past-tense/flee. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.