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/fjˈuːdʒɪtˌɪv/
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[ US /ˈfjudʒətɪv, ˈfjudʒɪtɪv/ ]
[ US /ˈfjudʒətɪv, ˈfjudʒɪtɪv/ ]
NOUN
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someone who flees from an uncongenial situation
fugitives from the sweatshops - someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice
ADJECTIVE
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lasting for a markedly brief time
rapid momentaneous association of things that meet and pass
a momentary glimpse
a fleeting glance
fugitive hours
How To Use fugitive In A Sentence
- It may seem a paradox that the same colour should be at once so durable and so fugitive, but we may briefly explain it by saying _when vitreous pigments are reduced to that extreme state of division which the palette requires, they lose the properties they possess in a less finely divided state_. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
- A young sea captain's future is transformed as he encounters mutiny, adventure and a beautiful fugitive in this romantic thriller set during an epic voyage to Shanghai.
- The fugitive slave problem on the southeastern frontier dated back to the colonial period.
- Fugitive slaves from the West Indies or Guyana, or their descendants, were called Maroons.
- The fugitive slave problem on the southeastern frontier dated back to the colonial period.
- McKean and other professional word gatherers join enthusiastic amateurs in Wallraff's new book Word Fugitives, which reassures us that taking language seriously needn't always mean being serious about language. Sniglets and Slithy Toves
- But it is wilful — the very wind in the comings and goings of its influence, an uncapturable fugitive, visiting our hearts at vagrant, sweet moments; since we often stand even before the greatest works of Art without being able quite to lose ourselves! The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays
- He went on to say that the fugitives had been pursued and captured and brought back to bondage; and upon Borrow's admitting that he had been the instigator of the adventure, he was sentenced to be flogged, and that it was on the back of this very Martineau that he had been "horsed" to undergo the punishment! Hawthorne and His Circle
- US marshals specialize in finding fugitives and escapees.
- In 1863 Debus transformed hydrocyanic acid into methylamine with platinum black; however, this reaction is fugitive and soon ceases because cyanidation of the metal rapidly destroys its capacity to induce the reaction. Paul Sabatier - Nobel Lecture
