-fuge

American  

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.

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-fuge British  

combining form

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

   vermifuge

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Other Word Forms

• -fugal combining form

Etymology

Origin of -fuge

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

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

But perhaps because they know it so well, or because we know them so well, the Emerson players did to the “Fuge” what they’ve long done to the literature of the string quartet: turn old favorites into fresh starting points, and know the difference between the end and the now.

From Washington Post