To abscond means to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
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Abscond
/əbˈskɒnd/
Synonyms for "abscond" (71 found)
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72 translations across 22 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- измъквам се, заминавам тайно verb (to flee, often secretly)
- укривам се verb (intransitive: to hide)
Catalan
4 entries- abscondir verb (intransitive: to hide)
- amagar verb (intransitive: to hide)
- escondir verb (intransitive: to hide)
- ocultar verb (intransitive: to hide)
Czech
3 entries- uniknout verb (to flee, often secretly)
- uprchnout verb (to flee, often secretly)
- utéct verb (to flee, often secretly)
Dutch
4 entries- heimelijk vertrekken (van/uit) verb (to flee, often secretly)
- wegrennen verb (intransitive: to hide)
- zich stilletjes uit de voeten maken verb (to flee, often secretly)
- zijn biezen pakken verb (to flee, often secretly)
Finnish
4 entries- karata verb (to flee, often secretly)
- livistää verb (to flee, often secretly)
- luikkia verb (to flee, often secretly)
- pakoilla (oikeutta) verb (intransitive: to hide)
French
1 entries- abscondre verb (intransitive: to hide)
German
4 entries- davonstehlen verb (to flee, often secretly)
- sich davonmachen verb (to flee, often secretly)
- sich verstecken verb (intransitive: to hide)
- türmen verb (to flee, often secretly)
Hungarian
4 entries- elbújik verb (intransitive: to hide)
- elillan verb (to flee, often secretly)
- elmenekül verb (to flee, often secretly)
- elrejtőzik verb (intransitive: to hide)
Irish
1 entries- teith verb (to flee, often secretly)
Latin
2 entries- lateo verb (to flee, often secretly)
- latito verb (to flee, often secretly)
Māori
1 entries- whati verb (to flee, often secretly)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- rømme verb (to flee, often secretly)
- stikke av verb (to flee, often secretly)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- rømme verb (to flee, often secretly)
- stikke av verb (to flee, often secretly)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- قاچمق verb (to flee, often secretly)
Persian
2 entries- پنهان شدن verb (intransitive: to hide)
- گریختن verb (to flee, often secretly)
Polish
4 entries- uciec verb (to flee, often secretly)
- uciec verb (intransitive: to hide)
- zbiec verb (to flee, often secretly)
- zbiec verb (intransitive: to hide)
Portuguese
3 entries- esconder verb (intransitive: to hide)
- esconder-se verb (to flee, often secretly)
- ocultar verb (intransitive: to hide)
Russian
1 entries- скрыва́ть verb (intransitive: to hide)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- otići potajice verb (to flee, often secretly)
- prikriti verb (intransitive: to hide)
- sakriti verb (intransitive: to hide)
- umàknuti verb (to flee, often secretly)
Spanish
4 entries- absconderse verb (intransitive: to hide)
- asconderse verb (intransitive: to hide)
- evadirse verb (to flee, often secretly)
- fugarse verb (to flee, often secretly)
Swedish
3 entries- gömma sig verb (intransitive: to hide)
- rymma verb (to flee, often secretly)
- smita verb (to flee, often secretly)
Turkish
4 entries- kaçmak verb (to flee, often secretly)
- saklanmak verb (intransitive: to hide)
- sıvışmak verb (to flee, often secretly)
- tüymek verb (to flee, often secretly)
Sample sentences
21 total sentences available.
The thieves absconded with our property.
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[…] that very homesickness which, in regular armies, drives so many recruits to abscond at the risk of stripes and of death.
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Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; / The trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
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