 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
abscond
verb: run away; usually includes taking something or somebody
along [syn: {bolt}, {absquatulate}, {decamp}, {run off},
{go off}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Abscond \Ab*scond"\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Absconded}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Absconding}.] [L. abscondere to hide; ab, abs +
condere to lay up; con + d[a^]re (only in comp.) to put. Cf.
{Do}.]
1. To hide, withdraw, or be concealed.
The marmot absconds all winter. --Ray.
2. To depart clandestinely; to steal off and secrete one's
self; -- used especially of persons who withdraw to avoid
a legal process; as, an absconding debtor.
That very homesickness which, in regular armies,
drives so many recruits to abscond. --Macaulay.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Abscond \Ab*scond"\, verb (used with an object)
To hide; to conceal. [Obs.] --Bentley.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
49 Moby Thesaurus words for "abscond":
abandon, absquatulate, beat a retreat, bolt, bow out, break, bunk,
clear out, cut and run, decamp, depart, desert, disappear, elope,
evacuate, flee, fly, fugitate, go, go AWOL, jump, jump bail, leave,
levant, make off, quit, remove, retire, retreat, run, run away,
run away from, run away with, run for it, run off, scape,
show the heels, skedaddle, skip, skip out, slip the cable,
take French leave, take flight, take to flight, take wing,
turn tail, vacate, vanish, withdraw
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
ABSCOND, v.i. To "move in a mysterious way," commonly with the
property of another.
Spring beckons! All things to the call respond;
The trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
Phela Orm
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