I was listening to a song and there was the line "time's fleeting away" which struck me as wrong by ear. I always thought that fleeting was exclusively an adjective and not a verb, but I am not positive. Was the line in the song wrong?
Answer
To fleet can be a intransitive verb according to M-W:
intransitive verb.
1 obsolete : drift
2a archaic : flow
2b : to fade away : vanish
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