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Someone trying to elude justice
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fugitive
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fugitive \Fu"gi*tive\, n. One who flees from pursuit, danger, restraint, service, duty, etc.; a deserter; as, a fugitive from justice. Something hard to be caught or detained. Or Catch that airy fugitive called wit. --Harte. Fugitive from justice (Law), ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 fleeing or running away 2 transient, fleeting or ephemeral 3 elusive or difficult to retain n. A person who is fleeing or escaping '''from''' something, especially prosecution.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. lasting for a markedly brief time; "a fleeting glance"; "fugitive hours"; "rapid momentaneous association of things that meet and pass"; "a momentary glimpse" [syn: fleeting , momentaneous , momentary ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "one who flees, a runaway, a fugitive from justice, an outlaw," from fugitive (adj.). Old French fugitif also was used as a noun meaning "fugitive person," and Latin fugitivus (adj.) commonly also was used as a noun meaning "a runaway, fugitive ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The game of Fugitive combines elements of a number of outdoor games such as capture the flag , cops and robbers , and Sharks and Minnows . In Fugitive, players divide into two teams, with each team playing the part either of the "fugitives" or of the "police". ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a fugitive from Stalin's oppressive regime ▪ Porter escaped in 1995 and remains a fugitive . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Also, Jerry and John had a lot of canceled checks made out to cash while their brother was a fugitive ...
Usage examples of fugitive.
Kuhmbuhluhners on their big horses, aided and abetted, if the tales of the fugitives were to be believed, by bearded Ahrmehnee warriors and even Moon Maidens.
These fugitives, who fled before the Turkish arms, passed the Tanais and Borysthenes, and boldly advanced into the heart of Poland and Germany, violating the law of nations, and abusing the rights of victory.
When Abies defaulted on his scheduled court appearance, he forfeited his surety, the cabin, and was declared a federal fugitive.
Federal authorities obtained a murder warrant yesterday against fugitive Glenn Alien Abies in the shooting death of Deputy U.
Let me ask you why many of us who are opposed to slavery upon principle give our acquiescence to a Fugitive Slave law?
Only Adin, however, had ever been a fugitive from justice: a former Starfleet security officer falsely convicted of treason and murder.
The savage insensibility of Jovian appears to have aggravated the hardships of these unhappy fugitives.
Frederick was apprised that the fugitives had entered his confines or were about to do so, he summoned one of his most trusted men, a certain Roger, a native of the Norman city of Argentan, who had been in his service for twenty years.
Sometimes he assisted the officer of the Intelligence Department, in interviewing fugitives who had arrived from Berber and other points on the river, from Kordofan, or from villages on the White Nile.
Because they were cheap, she said up scraping plates, and later, in the pall fallen over the room, the dark casements and the cold hearth, the only movement a fugitive couple kissing on the silent screen and the unascribed bleat of digestive juices you know what I never understand here?
Albany, with a wholesome hunger, so that they debated with spirit the question of breakfast and the best place of breakfasting in a city which neither of them knew, save in the most fugitive and sketchy way.
Chip, galloping madly, caught a glimpse of the fugitive a mile away, set his teeth together, and swung Blazes sharply off the trail into a bypath which intersected the road further on.
He supposes Cadmus to have been a fugitive Canaanite, who fled from the face of Joshua: and that he was called Cadmus from being a Cadmonite, which is a family mentioned by Moses.
The fireball Chicano lawyer was on his way to becoming a half-successful writer, a cult figure of sorts -- then a fugitive, a freak, and finally either a permanently missing person or an undiscovered corpse.
The tension caused by his fugitive status and the high visibility of his crimes gives the murderer a sense of desperation.