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Abscond

//əbˈskɒnd// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To flee, often secretly; to steal away. intransitive

    "The thieves absconded with our property."

  2. 2
    run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along wordnet
  3. 3
    To flee, often secretly; to steal away.; To hide, conceal, or absent oneself clandestinely, with the intent to avoid legal process intransitive

    "I've often speculated why you don't return to America. Did you abscond with the church funds? Run off with a senator's wife? I like to think you killed a man. It's the Romantic in me."

  4. 4
    To flee, often secretly; to steal away.; To abandon a hive. intransitive

    "[European honey bees] raise large colonies, hoard large quantities of honey, are more gentle than other species and almost never abscond."

  5. 5
    To hide, to be in hiding or concealment. intransitive

    "the Marmotto, […] which absconds all Winter doth […] live upon its own Fat."

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  1. 6
    To evade, to hide or flee from. transitive, uncommon

    "The captain absconded his responsibility."

  2. 7
    To conceal; to take away. obsolete, transitive

    "for having applied to the Side of the Head any thin black Body, such as the Brim of a Hat, so as it may abscond the Objects that are upon that Side"

Etymology

Either borrowed from Middle French abscondre or directly from Latin abscondō (“hide”); formed from abs, ab (“away”) + condō (“put together, store”), from con- (“together”) + *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, set”). * Cognate with sconce (“a type of light fixture”).

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