Flies is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FLIES in dictionary:

VERB:
• FLY, to move through the air
• (of a bird, bat, or insect) move through the air using wings
• (of an aircraft or its occupants) travel through the air
• control the flight of (an aircraft)
• transport in an aircraft
• accomplish (a purpose) in an aircraft
• release (a bird) to fly, especially a hawk for hunting or a pigeon for racing.
• move or be hurled quickly through the air
• (of accusations or insults) be exchanged swiftly and heatedly
• (of a report) be circulated swiftly and widely
• hit a ball high into the air
• wave or flutter in the wind
• (with reference to a flag) display or be displayed on a flagpole
• go or move quickly
• depart hastily
• (of time) pass swiftly
• run away; flee
• escape from in haste; flee from
• be successful
NOUN:
• an opening at the crotch of a pair of trousers, closed with a zip or buttons and typically covered with a flap.
• a flap of material covering the opening or fastening of a garment or of a tent.
• the space over the stage in a theatre.
• a one-horse hackney carriage.
• an attempt
• a flying insect of a large order characterized by a single pair of transparent wings and sucking (and often also piercing) mouthparts. Flies are of great importance as vectors of disease.
• used in names of flying insects of other orders, e.g. butterfly, dragonfly, firefly.
• an infestation of flying insects on a plant or animal
• a natural or artificial flying insect used as bait in fishing, especially a mayfly.
• (theater) the space over the stage (out of view of the audience) used to store scenery (drop curtains)
ADJECTIVE:
• knowing and clever
• fashionably attractive and impressive
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• present 3d person sing. of fly

Words related to FLIES

fly9 flying13

Words that contain FLIES

fliest9 reflies10 barflies13 botflies13 dayflies15 gadflies13 mayflies16 medflies14 outflies11 sawflies14 beetflies14 blowflies17 bushflies17 cornflies14 deerflies13 dropflies15 fireflies15 fritflies15 gallflies13 glowflies16 goutflies13 grayflies16 ladyflies16 overflies15 ruffliest15 sandflies13 shadflies16 shooflies15 tailflies12 waffliest18 wormflies17 alderflies14 blackflies21 catchflies20 craneflies15 greenflies14 horseflies16 houseflies16 hoverflies19 sniffliest16 snuffliest16 stoneflies13 whiteflies19 butterflies16 caddisflies18 damselflies17 dobsonflies17 dragonflies16

How to use FLIES in a sentence

• It should, therefore, be well examined when it comes in, and if flies have touched it, the part must be cut off, and the remainder well washed.
• He regards the people about him no more than the flies of a summer.
• A sheep is seized with horror at the approach of a wolf, and flies away before he can discern him.
• These kept up a low moaning noise, and occasionally whisked off the flies from the face of the deceased.
• Shortly after, the tigress came back, and flies were clustered round her mouth because of the blood on it.
• The book by the popular author flies without wings, as it were.
• Jawleyford Court was twenty miles from Woodmansterne as the crow flies, and any distance anybody liked to call it by the road.
• The stormy March is come at last, With wind, and cloud, and changing skies, I hear the rushing of the blast, That through the snowy valley flies.
• Ajax with Menelaus flies to the relief of Ulysses, and Eurypylus, soon after, to the relief of Ajax.
• Our horses, maddened by the flies and heat, chafed and stamped restlessly out at the gate.
• But infinitely worse than any other was the plague of flies.
• As they slide down the snow flies over them like a fine powder.
• The first flies were busy, they flew amidst the flower-beds and settled on our jam.
• I worked as a house girl, tended to the children, brushed the flies off the table and the baby when it slept and swept the house and the yard too.
• From this circumstance a most exaggerated idea obtained concerning the illuminating power of the flies.
• They also called swarms of ants, bees, beetles, and flies.
• She flies to the window, piercing the dark night with straining eyes.
• A Boer, if once he flies, is not easily turned aside.
• A similar consideration of economy led her to flirt off flies with her second best pocket-handkerchief.

Similar words containing FLIE without suffix s

flied9 flier8 fliers9 fliest9 reflies10 barflies13 botflies13 dayflies15 gadflies13 mayflies16 medflies14 outflies11 rufflier14 sawflies14 wafflier17 beetflies14 blowflies17 bushflies17 cornflies14 deerflies13 dropflies15 fireflies15 fritflies15 gallflies13 glowflies16 goutflies13 grayflies16 highflier19 ladyflies16 overflies15 ruffliest15 sandflies13 shadflies16 shooflies15 snifflier15 snufflier15 tailflies12 waffliest18 wormflies17 alderflies14 blackflies21 catchflies20 craneflies15 greenflies14 highfliers20 horseflies16 houseflies16 hoverflies19 sniffliest16 snuffliest16 stoneflies13 whiteflies19 butterflied17 butterflies16 caddisflies18 damselflies17 dobsonflies17 dragonflies16

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