-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

Derived Forms

• -fugal, combining_form:in_adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of -fuge¹

< French < Latin -fugus, derivative of fugāre to drive away

Word History and Origins

Origin of -fuge¹

from Latin fugāre to expel, put to flight

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.

From BBC

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

From BBC

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.

From New York Times

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.

From New York Times

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

From Washington Post