fugitive
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- noun
- /ˈfjuːdʒɪtɪv/
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fugitivo
- Heading the case to bring these fugitives to justice is FBI agent Stanley Chase.
- fugitive from justice
- become a fugitive
- live as a fugitive
Possibly it was a song reflecting the runaway fugitive slave experience.
- Possibly it was a song reflecting the runaway fugitive slave experience.
- He jumped bail, and he's been a fugitive since April.
- Well, Kevin Paul is very much a real fugitive.
- And Whitman tells us about watching the fugitive slaves eyes roll with with fear and trembling.
- The storyline doesn't make sense because he is a, he's a, he's a, he's a fugitive.
- She and two of her friends are sent on a mission to find this fugitive who was like a very horrible person in the past war.
- I had done the I had found a fugitive, A customs agent that went bad.
- I'm best known for catching pretend fugitives.
- People are wearing nightgowns and we're just watching this like bomb squad go through this fugitives bag who was on our train.
- Oh fuck, here come a couple of fugitives have ever done anything heroic.
Examples
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The notorious fugitive Edwin Alonzo Boyd has been captured in a strategic police operation.
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Mac said, 'I told him that we would be fugitives for the rest of our lives.'
Fiction book (1995) -
I'm kind of a fugitive from the law.
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We have a fugitive aboard the ship.
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Because I want Kevin Powell to become the most well known fugitive on the entire planet Earth.
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We may be wanted fugitives, but should we really be stealing medicine?
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Matt Cox, the financial fugitive, is stopped at a bank in Columbia, SC.
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He jumped bail, and he's been a fugitive since April.
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After several days on the run, the fugitive hid in a remote cabin to avoid capture.
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The police received a tip-off about the location of the fugitive who had escaped from prison.
Synonyms
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3.9
A person who leaves home secretly to escape problems
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4.5
A person who escaped from prison or another place where people are kept
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7.9
A person wanted by the police who tries to avoid arrest
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A person who runs away to avoid arrest or punishment
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5.5
A person who avoids something by clever indirect actions
Antonyms
Compounds
How Free
Surface Forms
Morphology
fugitive = flee (semi-transparent) = fugit + ive
The meaning ('one who flees') aligns with the verb 'flee', but the word's form comes from Latin/French rather than a visible English stem, so learners may not deduce it from spelling.
Etymology
Fugitive comes from the Latin root fug- meaning 'to flee', the same idea as the English word flee, so a fugitive is someone who runs away and hides from the police or danger.