| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | One who flees, as from home, confinement, captivity, or justice: escapee, refugee, runaway. See SEEK. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Fleeing or having fled, as from home, confinement, captivity, or justice: escaped, runaway. See SEEK. 2. Lasting or existing only for a short time: ephemeral, evanescent, fleet, fleeting, fugacious, momentary, passing, short-lived, temporal, temporary, transient, transitory. See CONTINUE, TIME.
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| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. Copyright © 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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