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fugir.

to run away; to flee (to move away from something unpleasant quickly or suddenly)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

verb/fuˈʒi(ʁ)/Brazil[fuˈʒi(h)]Brazil/fuˈʒi(ɾ)/São-Paulo/fuˈʒi(ʁ)/Rio-de-Janeiro
  1. to run away; to flee (to move away from something unpleasant quickly or suddenly)

    intransitive
    Os terroristas fugiram da cadeia.
    Não foge das suas responsabilidades.
  2. to be forgotten, to escape

    intransitive
    O seu nome me fugiu.
Where this word comes from

From Old Galician-Portuguese fugir, from Vulgar Latin *fugīre, from Latin fugere, from Proto-Italic *fugiō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewg-. Cognate with Galician fuxir, Asturian afuxir, Catalan fugir, Italian fuggire, French fuir, Spanish huir.

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