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fuir.

to escape

4 characters1 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

verb/fɥiʁ/
  1. to escape

    intransitive
  2. to flee

    transitive
  3. to leak; to have a leak

    intransitive
    Le robinet fuit.
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Middle French fuyr, fuir (“to flee”), from Old French fuir, from Vulgar Latin *fūgīre, from Latin fugere, from Proto-Italic *fugiō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewg-.

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