flees

• IPA^(key): /ˈfliːz/
• Rhymes: -iːz
• Homophone: fleas

flees

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of flee

• feels, lefse, selfe

From Old English flēos, from Proto-West Germanic *fleus, from Proto-Germanic *fleusaz.

• ffleyse, fleece, fleese, fleesse, fleis, fleos, fleose, fles, flese, floes, flus, vluys

• IPA^(key): /fleːs/
• (Southern, Western) IPA^(key): /fløːs/, /flyːs/, /vl-/

flees (plural fleeses)

1. A sheepskin or fleece; the skin of a sheep.
2. The wool of a sheep; a sheep's coat.
3. (rare) A measure of wool.

• English: fleece
  • → Finnish: fliisi
  • → German: Fleece
• Scots: fleis
• Yola: flaase

• “flẹ̄s, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 November 2018.

From fle +‎ -es.

flees

1. plural of fle