Fugitive - English meaning

noun

Someone who goes away from a place suddenly, especially in order to escape from it

Usage examples:

A 14-year-old absconder from a children's home was found alive and well this morning., the number o…

adjective

Of short duration; not lasting for long.

Usage examples:

The president made a brief working visit to moscow

noun

A set of instructions given to a person about a job or task.

Usage examples:

His brief is to turn round the county's fortunes

verb

Instruct or inform (someone) thoroughly, especially in preparation for a task.

Usage examples:

She briefed him on last week's decisions

noun

A member of the armed forces who deserts.

Usage examples:

Deserters from the army

noun

A person who leaves the armed forces without permission and with no intention of returning

adjective

Lasting for a very short time.

Usage examples:

Fashions are ephemeral: new ones regularly drive out the old

noun

An ephemeral plant.

Usage examples:

Ephemerals avoid the periods of drought as seeds

adjective

Lasting for only a short time

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Ephemeral fame

noun

A person who has escaped from somewhere, especially prison.

Usage examples:

We try to focus primarily on missing children, dangerous prison escapees and dangerous fugitives.

noun

A person who has escaped from a place

Usage examples:

The escapees were recaptured after three days on the run.

adjective

Soon passing out of sight, memory, or existence; quickly fading or disappearing.

Usage examples:

The evanescent arctic summer

adjective

Lasting for only a short time, then disappearing quickly and being forgotten

verb

Gradually grow faint and disappear.

Usage examples:

The light had faded and dusk was advancing

noun

The process of becoming less bright.

Usage examples:

The sun can cause colour fade

noun

A shot causing the ball to deviate to the right (or, for a left-handed golfer, the left)

Usage examples:

When they get to the 18th the ideal shot is a fade

adjective

Lasting for a very short time.

Usage examples:

For a fleeting moment i saw the face of a boy

verb

Move or pass quickly.

Usage examples:

A variety of expressions fleeted across his face

Lasting for a markedly brief time

verb

Move swiftly and lightly.

Usage examples:

Small birds flitted about in the branches

noun

An act of moving house or leaving one's home, typically secretly so as to escape creditors or obligations.

Usage examples:

moonlight flits from one insalubrious dwelling to another

noun

An act of moving house or leaving one's home, typically secretly so as to escape creditors or obligations.

Usage examples:

moonlight flits from one insalubrious dwelling to another

adjective

(esp. of a business) not able to be trusted, and likely to stop operating without any notice

Usage examples:

A fly-by-night operation

adjective

A fly-by-night business or worker does not offer good products or services and is likely to avoid paying debts or satisfying agreements by leaving the area

Usage examples:

Fly-by-night companies/contractors/operators

adjective

Moving or able to move through the air with wings.

Usage examples:

A flying ant

noun

Flight, especially in an aircraft.

Usage examples:

She hates flying

verb

(of a bird, bat, or insect) move through the air using wings.

Usage examples:

Close the door or the moths will fly in

adjective

Tending to disappear; fleeting.

Usage examples:

She was acutely conscious of her fugacious youth

adjective

Quick to disappear; not lasting very long

Usage examples:

Love's fugacious radiance

adjective

Not permanent.

Usage examples:

Life has value precisely because it is transient and impermanent

adjective

Not lasting for ever or not lasting for a long time

Usage examples:

Acrylic paint is quick-drying but impermanent.

adjective

Lasting for a very short time; brief.

Usage examples:

A momentary lapse of concentration

adjective

Lasting for a very short time

Usage examples:

A momentary hesitation

adjective

Going past.

Usage examples:

Passing cars

noun

The passage of something, especially time.

Usage examples:

With the passing of the years she had become a little eccentric

verb

Move or cause to move in a specified direction.

Usage examples:

He passed through towns and villages

noun

A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.

Usage examples:

Tens of thousands of refugees fled their homes

noun

A person who leaves his or her home or country to find safety, esp. during a war or for political or religious reasons

noun

A person who deserts and betrays an organization, country, or set of principles.

Usage examples:

An agent who later turns out to be a renegade

adjective

Having treacherously changed allegiance.

Usage examples:

A renegade bodyguard

verb

Become a renegade.

Usage examples:

Johnson had renegaded from the confederacy

noun

A person who has run away; a deserter.

Usage examples:

I found this runagate at vienna.

noun

A person who has run away, especially from their family or an institution.

Usage examples:

A teenage runaway

adjective

Measuring a small distance from end to end.

Usage examples:

Short dark hair

verb

(of a vowel) categorized as short with regard to quality and length (e.g. in standard british english the vowel /ʊ/ in good is short as distinct from the long vowel /uː/ in food ).

noun

Short trousers that reach only to the knees or thighs.

Usage examples:

Cycling shorts

adjective

Lasting only for a brief time

Usage examples:

He got angry easily, but his anger was always short-lived.

adjective

Lasting only for a short time; impermanent.

Usage examples:

A transient cold spell

noun

A person who is staying or working in a place for a short time only.

Usage examples:

The law had been applied to hotels and motels to collect a tax from transients, vacationers, and tr…

adjective

Lasting for only a short time; temporary

Usage examples:

The weakness was transient, and soon i was feeling strong again., transient workers come to pick ap…

adjective

Not permanent.

Usage examples:

Transitory periods of medieval greatness

adjective

Not permanent; temporary

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The transitory nature of life

adjective

Only lasting for a short period of time

Usage examples:

A growing proportion of the population are in a transitory stage between paid employment and old ag…