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Answer for the clue "Escapee, e.g ", 8 letters:
fugitive

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who flees from an uncongenial situation; "fugitives from the sweatshops" [syn: runaway ] someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice [syn: fugitive from justice ]

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 ...

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". ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "fleeing, having fled, having taken flight," from Old French fugitif , fuitif "absent, missing," from Latin fugitivus "fleeing," past participle adjective from stem of fugere "to flee, fly, take flight, run away; become a fugitive, leave the ...

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.