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fugitive
What does fugitive mean?
fugitive (noun): a person who flees or escapes and travels secretly from place to place, and sometimes using disguises and aliases to conceal their identity, as to avoid law authorities in order to avoid an arrest or prosecution, or to avoid some other unwanted situation.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you pronounce fugitive?
/ˈfjudʒətɪv/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does fugitive come from?
From Middle English fugitive, fugityve, fugityf, fugitife, fugytif, fugitif, from Latin fugitīvus, from fugitō, from fugiō.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What are synonyms of fugitive?
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “fugitive” mean?
any disturbed state of the atmosphere causing destructive or unpleasant weather, especially one affecting the earth's surface involving strong winds (leading to high waves at sea) and usually lightning, thunder, and precipitation
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an institution which holds books and/or other forms of media for use by the public or qualified people often lending them out, as well as providing various other services for its users
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the part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores water and nutrients, and in some plants is able to perform vegetative reproduction
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a person who flees or escapes and travels secretly from place to place, and sometimes using disguises and aliases to conceal their identity, as to avoid law authorities in order to avoid an arrest or prosecution, or to avoid some other unwanted situation
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country
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runaway
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service
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company
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