fugitive

Plural: fugitives

Noun

• A person who has escaped from captivity or is in hiding.
• someone who flees from an uncongenial situation
  • "fugitives from the sweatshops"
• someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice
• 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.

Adjective Satellite

• lasting for a markedly brief time
  • "fugitive hours"

Adj

• Fleeing or running away; escaping.
• Transient, fleeting or ephemeral.
• Elusive or difficult to retain.

Verb

• To render someone a fugitive; to drive into escape or exile.

Examples

• The last ’Q’ tile remained a fugitive, refusing to appear on his rack.

Synonyms

fleer, fleeting, fugitive from justice, momentaneous, momentary, runaway, abscotchalater, nomad, wanderer

Related Words

fugitive disentitlement, fugitive dust, fugitive from justice, fugitive pigment

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