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fleeted
We have found lemma(root) word of fleeted : fleet.
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[fliːt], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a group of ships sailing together, engaged in the same activity, or under the same ownership
(e.g: the small port supports a fishing fleet)
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Old English flēot ‘ship, shipping’, from flēotan ‘float, swim’ (see fleet)
[fliːt], (Adjective)
Definitions:
- fast and nimble in movement
(e.g: a man of advancing years, but fleet of foot)
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Origin
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early 16th century: probably from Old Norse fljótr, of Germanic origin and related to fleet
[fliːt], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a marshland creek, channel, or ditch
- a stream, now wholly underground, running into the Thames east of Fleet Street
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Old English flēot, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vliet, also to fleet
[fliːt], (Verb)
Definitions:
- move or pass quickly
(e.g: a variety of expressions fleeted across his face)
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Old English flēotan ‘float, swim’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vlieten and German fliessen, also to flit and float
[fliːt], (Adjective)
Definitions:
- (of water) shallow
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early 17th century: perhaps based on an Old English cognate of Dutch vloot ‘shallow’ and related to fleet
[fliːt], (Adverb)
Definitions:
- at or to a small depth
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early 17th century: perhaps based on an Old English cognate of Dutch vloot ‘shallow’ and related to fleet
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