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Fugitive vs Fleeing - What's the difference?

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Fugitive is a synonym of fleeing.


As nouns the difference between fugitive and fleeing

is that fugitive is a person who is fleeing or escaping from something, especially prosecution while fleeing is the act of one who flees.

As an adjective fugitive

is fleeing or running away.

As a verb fleeing is

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fugitive

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who is fleeing or escaping from something, especially prosecution.
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  • *:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!”
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • fleeing or running away
  • transient, fleeting or ephemeral
  • elusive or difficult to retain
  • fleeing

    English

    Verb

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  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who flees.
  • * 1865 , The Dublin Review (page 58)
  • Until the year 211, "Adamantius" taught, studied, prayed, and fasted amidst disturbance, martyrdoms, and fleeings from house to house

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