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take flight

take flight verb: to begin flying; to become airborne or aloft; to take off and fly.

Verb

take flight (third-person singular simple present takes flight, present participle taking flight, simple past took flight, past participle taken flight)

  1. (idiomatic) To begin flying; to become airborne or aloft; to take off and fly
    • Though the bird is still young, in a day or two it will spread its wing and take flight for the first time.
  2. (idiomatic) to flee
    • The criminals took flight as soon as they heard the sirens.
    Synonyms:
    fly

take flight meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Punjabi

take flight in Tamil

பின்வாங்கு, தப்பியோடு

take flight in Bengali

উড়তে শুরু করা, আকাশে ওড়া, উড্ডয়ন করা, পালিয়ে যাওয়া

take flight in Malayalam

run away, run off, flee
പലായനം ചെയ്യുക, മണ്ടുക, ഓടുക, പിന്തിരിഞ്ഞോടുക, പെട്ടെന്നു പിൻമാറുക, കടക്കുക

take flight in Punjabi

to take flight; to soar; glide
اڈنا uḍḍṇā

Synonyms of take flight

Forms of take flight

third-person singular presenttakes flight
present participletaking flight
pasttook flight
past participletaken flight

Questions about take flight

What does take flight mean?
Take flight means to begin flying; to become airborne or aloft; to take off and fly.
What is take flight in Tamil?
Take flight in Tamil is பின்வாங்கு, தப்பியோடு. See Take flight meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is take flight?
Take flight is a verb.
What is the past tense of take flight?
The past tense of take flight is took flight.

Words near take flight in the dictionary

  1. take easy
  2. take effect
  3. take exception
  4. take fire
  5. take five
  6. take flight
  7. take for
  8. take for a drive
  9. take for a ride
  10. take for a spin
  11. take for granite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: take flight (page history and authors); take flight (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); take flight (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); take flight (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); اڈنا (Punjabi) (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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