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-fuge

  1. a combining form occurring in compound words which have the general sense “something that repels or drives away” whatever is specified by the initial element:

    vermifuge.



-fuge

combining form

  1. indicating an agent or substance that expels or drives away

    vermifuge

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • -fugal, combining_form:in_adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of -fuge1

< French < Latin -fugus, derivative of fugāre to drive away
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Word History and Origins

Origin of -fuge1

from Latin fugāre to expel, put to flight
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Example Sentences

It is 02:00 BST and Bach's Toccata and Fuge in D Minor is echoing around the circular walls of the world famous venue.

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Helen Fuge, from NATS, says: "Air traffic control should be a career anyone can aspire to, along with the wider aviation industry".

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Theirs is not a Beethoven of struggle, of strife; if they allow rough edges to creep into the blistering dissonance of the Grosse Fuge, they hardly threaten the general air of composure.

They can be a matter of direct quotation, as when Schnittke uses the Grosse Fuge in his Third Quartet, or of something as clear as Bartók beginning his First with a slow canon echoing the methods of Beethoven’s Op.

The “Grosse Fuge” predictably offered the true test of Emersonian mettle.

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