All 8 Uses
fugitive
in
Watership Down
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- Before long they lost the course of the brook, slipping across the moonlit patches as fugitives and halting in the bushes with raised ears and staring eyes.†
p. 23.4 *fugitives = people hiding from law enforcement officers
- But, worse, Captain Charlock—a brave and resourceful rabbit—while leading the pursuit of the fugitives, had been run down on the iron road by a train: a further proof, if any were needed, of the wicked malice of men.†
p. 308.6
- But a fugitive would be safe.†
p. 343.7fugitive = someone hiding from law enforcement officers
- The storm and the difficult going had upset the fugitives and disorganized them.†
p. 363.6fugitives = people hiding from law enforcement officers
- Fugitives, do you mean?†
p. 411.9
- "No," said Holly, "not fugitives.†
p. 411.9
- On the contrary, he had kept up the pursuit in spite of Kehaar and had actually carried out a scheme to cut off the fugitives' retreat.†
p. 415.2
- Back in the Honeycomb, Groundsel immediately surrendered himself and his fugitives to Fiver, who was still bemused from his long trance, and scarcely restored to his senses sufficiently to grasp what was toward.†
p. 462.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(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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(2)
(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."