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fugitive
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That Summer, by Sarah Dessen
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- I was like a fugitive, running from some indefinable force made up of my mother's worried eyes and Ashley's whining and Lydia's Town Car, sucking up my steps even as I took them.†
Chpt 12fugitive = someone hiding from law enforcement officers
- I was still in my fugitive mode, suspicious, as I passed a group of tiny old women, all of them hunched over and white haired.†
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Definitions:
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(fugitive as in: she is a fugitive) someone who is running away or hiding to avoid arrest or an unpleasant situation
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, "fugitive" may describe something that lasts for a very short time; as in "a fugitive impression."