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-fuge
- 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
- indicating an agent or substance that expels or drives away
vermifuge
Derived Forms
- -fugal, combining_form:in_adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of -fuge1
Word History and Origins
Origin of -fuge1
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.
Helen Fuge, from NATS, says: "Air traffic control should be a career anyone can aspire to, along with the wider aviation industry".
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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