Fugitive
noun
A person who has escaped and is hiding to avoid law or punishment.
The police are hunting for the fugitive who escaped from prison last night.
Often appears as...
- capturing a fugitive
- fugitive from justice
adjective
Quickly disappearing; fleeting.
The fugitive moments of happiness in a difficult life.
Often appears as...
- fugitive moment
- fugitive pleasure
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Formal
Literary
noun
A substance that disappears quickly or is prone to evaporation.
Petroleum ether is a fugitive solvent, which is why it's used in some extraction processes.
Often appears as...
- fugitive solvent
- fugitive substance
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Technical
adjective
Of a color: tending to fade or disappear.
When exposed to light, the fugitive colors in the painting began to fade.
Often appears as...
- fugitive color
- fugitive pigment
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Technical
noun
A person who has escaped and is hiding to avoid law or punishment.
The police are hunting for the fugitive who escaped from prison last night.
Often appears as...
- capturing a fugitive
- fugitive from justice
adjective
Quickly disappearing; fleeting.
The fugitive moments of happiness in a difficult life.
Often appears as...
- fugitive moment
- fugitive pleasure
Usage tips
Formal
Literary
noun
A substance that disappears quickly or is prone to evaporation.
Petroleum ether is a fugitive solvent, which is why it's used in some extraction processes.
Often appears as...
- fugitive solvent
- fugitive substance
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Of a color: tending to fade or disappear.
When exposed to light, the fugitive colors in the painting began to fade.
Often appears as...
- fugitive color
- fugitive pigment
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Hide and Seek
A fugitive often hides to avoid capture, creating a sense of a pursuit or search.
The village searched the woods for the fugitive.
Pro Tip 2/3Legal Context
Fugitive is commonly used in legal or crime-related contexts, referring to someone avoiding law enforcement.
The fugitive was wanted for robbery.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
The term 'fugitive' carries a negative connotation, implying wrongdoing or criminal behavior.
Being labeled a fugitive tarnished his reputation.
Pro Tip 1/3Hide and Seek
A fugitive often hides to avoid capture, creating a sense of a pursuit or search.
The village searched the woods for the fugitive.
Pro Tip 2/3Legal Context
Fugitive is commonly used in legal or crime-related contexts, referring to someone avoiding law enforcement.
The fugitive was wanted for robbery.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
The term 'fugitive' carries a negative connotation, implying wrongdoing or criminal behavior.
Being labeled a fugitive tarnished his reputation.
Pro Tip 1/3Hide and Seek
A fugitive often hides to avoid capture, creating a sense of a pursuit or search.
The village searched the woods for the fugitive.
Pro Tip 2/3Legal Context
Fugitive is commonly used in legal or crime-related contexts, referring to someone avoiding law enforcement.
The fugitive was wanted for robbery.
Pro Tip 3/3Negative Connotation
The term 'fugitive' carries a negative connotation, implying wrongdoing or criminal behavior.
Being labeled a fugitive tarnished his reputation.
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Video examples
The breathtaking courage...
Even as a small child, Minty was hired out to different owners, who subjected her to whippings and punishment. Young Minty’s life changed forever on an errand to a neighborhood store. There, an overseer threw a two-pound weight at a fugitive enslaved person, missed, and struck Minty instead. Her injury caused her to experience sleeping spells,
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Alice Goffman: How we're...
to basically never do anything wrong. Why are we not providing support to young kids facing these challenges? Why are we offering only handcuffs, jail time and this fugitive existence? Can we imagine something better? Can we imagine a criminal justice system that prioritizes recovery,
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Do Shark Stories Help...
again now i can stop looking on ebay for old fugitive tapes of it believe it or not the movie jaws had a similar impact on future marine biologists jaws made people terrified of sharks but it also inspired a generation of scientists richard dreyfuss's character
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For the love of fangirls...
inside of various imagined romances with him. So in one, I tell him that I'm pregnant with his child. In another, we meet in hospital where we're both fighting cancer, and in another, we fall so deeply in love that we become fugitives who kill people. But then
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Why should you read Toni...
Some of her novels explore when love challenges social conventions, like the forbidden affection that grows between the townsfolk of "Paradise" and their fugitive neighbors. Other works examine how we can be blind to the love we already possess.
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Safari Live - Day 158 PIPE...
dish it's about interesting there's a screw it's it's actually quite an interesting discussion there's nothing to do with Safari of course but their royal family I once said to a chap I was staying darling hotels fugitives drift lodge on
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Hunted by a Skunk PIPE The...
down hunted like a fugitive on the run and he was running backwards on on his front legs and popping his kind in up in the air and spraying at me steve is put into a life-or-death situation not really life or death but definitely a
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This Season On Valley of...
You guys ready for your lives to change forever? - 5-- - Doesn't mean it didn't work. I'd like to report the setting of a fugitive. There's a judgment coming. It's over. It's far from over.
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Gun violence as told by...
carpet cleaner but even when I was a child his past intruded in our lives when I was just a few months old my father broke his parole and we lived as fugitives for five years hiding out in
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Tracking Down Bento PIPE...
master fugitive bento bentos tried two strategies to evade capture so far I danced through the trees and throwing the biggest branches he can find now
Video examples
The breathtaking courage...
Even as a small child, Minty was hired out to different owners, who subjected her to whippings and punishment. Young Minty’s life changed forever on an errand to a neighborhood store. There, an overseer threw a two-pound weight at a fugitive enslaved person, missed, and struck Minty instead. Her injury caused her to experience sleeping spells,
Video examples
Alice Goffman: How we're...
to basically never do anything wrong. Why are we not providing support to young kids facing these challenges? Why are we offering only handcuffs, jail time and this fugitive existence? Can we imagine something better? Can we imagine a criminal justice system that prioritizes recovery,
Video examples
Do Shark Stories Help...
again now i can stop looking on ebay for old fugitive tapes of it believe it or not the movie jaws had a similar impact on future marine biologists jaws made people terrified of sharks but it also inspired a generation of scientists richard dreyfuss's character
Video examples
For the love of fangirls...
inside of various imagined romances with him. So in one, I tell him that I'm pregnant with his child. In another, we meet in hospital where we're both fighting cancer, and in another, we fall so deeply in love that we become fugitives who kill people. But then
Video examples
Why should you read Toni...
Some of her novels explore when love challenges social conventions, like the forbidden affection that grows between the townsfolk of "Paradise" and their fugitive neighbors. Other works examine how we can be blind to the love we already possess.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 158 PIPE...
dish it's about interesting there's a screw it's it's actually quite an interesting discussion there's nothing to do with Safari of course but their royal family I once said to a chap I was staying darling hotels fugitives drift lodge on
Video examples
Hunted by a Skunk PIPE The...
down hunted like a fugitive on the run and he was running backwards on on his front legs and popping his kind in up in the air and spraying at me steve is put into a life-or-death situation not really life or death but definitely a
Video examples
This Season On Valley of...
You guys ready for your lives to change forever? - 5-- - Doesn't mean it didn't work. I'd like to report the setting of a fugitive. There's a judgment coming. It's over. It's far from over.
Video examples
Gun violence as told by...
carpet cleaner but even when I was a child his past intruded in our lives when I was just a few months old my father broke his parole and we lived as fugitives for five years hiding out in
Video examples
Tracking Down Bento PIPE...
master fugitive bento bentos tried two strategies to evade capture so far I danced through the trees and throwing the biggest branches he can find now
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Quote examples
Abraham Lincoln
American President
The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied.
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Abbie Hoffman
American Activist
I was a fugitive, taking risks with my life. I chose that. I chose to be a volunteer to go to Guatemala when they were having their earthquake, to help people with a team of doctors.
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Paul Horgan
American Author
The most valuable writers are those in whom we find not themselves, or ourselves, or the fugitive era of their lifetimes, but the common vision of all times.
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Theodor Reik
American Psychologist
We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death.
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Duane Chapman
American Celebrity
Born on a mountain, raised in a cave. Arresting fugitives is all I crave.
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Kevin Mitnick
American Businessman
Once when I was a fugitive, I was working for a law firm in Denver.
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Joan Rivers
American Comedian
The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.
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John Walsh
American Entertainer
I figured out how to catch fugitives without a gun.
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Bill Mauldin
American Cartoonist
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
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Paul Watson
Canadian Environmentalist
I'm not really a fugitive.
Quote examples
Abraham Lincoln
American President
The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied.
Quote examples
Abbie Hoffman
American Activist
I was a fugitive, taking risks with my life. I chose that. I chose to be a volunteer to go to Guatemala when they were having their earthquake, to help people with a team of doctors.
Quote examples
Paul Horgan
American Author
The most valuable writers are those in whom we find not themselves, or ourselves, or the fugitive era of their lifetimes, but the common vision of all times.
Quote examples
Theodor Reik
American Psychologist
We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death.
Quote examples
Duane Chapman
American Celebrity
Born on a mountain, raised in a cave. Arresting fugitives is all I crave.
Quote examples
Kevin Mitnick
American Businessman
Once when I was a fugitive, I was working for a law firm in Denver.
Quote examples
Joan Rivers
American Comedian
The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.
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John Walsh
American Entertainer
I figured out how to catch fugitives without a gun.
Quote examples
Bill Mauldin
American Cartoonist
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
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Paul Watson
Canadian Environmentalist
I'm not really a fugitive.
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