FUGITIVE


Meaning of FUGITIVE in English

I. noun

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a fugitive from Stalin's oppressive regime

Porter escaped in 1995 and remains a fugitive .

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Also, Jerry and John had a lot of canceled checks made out to cash while their brother was a fugitive .

He'd even questioned some of the older members of the Lucy Ghosts in private to help trace the fugitive .

Orders were immediately sent out by Bustamante to the neighboring states to apprehend the fugitives.

The fugitives, two of whom have been recaptured, are accused of genocide, mass murder and other crimes.

The last two were arrested in 1995, but Garza escaped and remains a fugitive .

There are 21 fugitives who will benefit, all republicans.

They pursued the fugitives for about nine miles and then lit bonfires on the hill-tops to alert the local peasantry.

II. adjective

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The fugitive leader was captured last night.

They shared a fugitive embrace.

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Below her there were fugitive glimpses of a winding thread of water that was the canal.

He might have discussed it with his staff and opposed clemency for the fugitive businessman.

His is one of the great fugitive stories of our time.

In effect, a national bounty was promised for the capture of fugitive blacks.

This makes the meaning of Mynd even more fugitive .

We were catching a bus-one in an endless series in my fugitive childhood.

Why construct a hero so multiple, so spread out, so fugitive ?

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