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FUGITIVE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice
Synonyms:
fugitive; fugitive from justice
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("fugitive" is a kind of...):
criminal; crook; felon; malefactor; outlaw (someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fugitive"):
absconder (a fugitive who runs away and hides to avoid arrest or prosecution)
escapee (someone who escapes)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Someone who flees from an uncongenial situation
Example:
fugitives from the sweatshops
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("fugitive" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lasting for a markedly brief time
Example:
a momentary glimpse
Synonyms:
fleeting; fugitive; momentaneous; momentary
Classified under:
Similar:
short (primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration)
Context examples:
We had little time to watch them, however, for in an instant they had overtaken the fugitives and were making a dire slaughter among them.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If their evidence is good, then we are fortunate enough to be able to block the west, and also to be able to say that the fugitives did not use the road at all.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I found afterwards that he was the chauffeur, who filled the gaps left by a succession of fugitive butlers.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
All day we heard the excited calling of the ape-men in the direction of our old camp, but none of them came our way, and the tired fugitives, red and white, had a long, deep sleep.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Fly as they would the fugitives were too slow to escape from the active savages, and from every side in the tangled woods we heard the exultant yells, the twanging of bows, and the crash and thud as ape-men were brought down from their hiding-places in the trees.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
