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sfuggire

to escape, to slip away

verb sfood-JEE-reh Less Common
Body & Health Movement

Also means

to evade, to elude

Usage Note

Sfuggire can be intransitive (è sfuggito alla polizia = he escaped from the police) or used with an indirect object (mi è sfuggito il nome = the name escaped me / slipped my mind). It conjugates with essere when intransitive and the participle agrees with the subject. The idiom sfuggire di mano means to get out of hand.

Examples

"Il gatto è sfuggito dalle mie mani."

Natural Translation

The cat slipped out of my hands.

Literal Translation

The cat is escaped from my hands.

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