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abscond

verb
/əbˈskɒnd/UK/əbˈskɑnd/US

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Italic *ap Latin abder. Latin abs- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁tder. Proto-Italic *-ðō Latin -dō Latin condō Latin abscondōder. Middle French abscondrebor. ▲ Latin abscondōbor. English abscond 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”).

  1. borrowed from abscondō
  2. borrowed from abscondre

Definitions

  1. To flee, often secretly

    To flee, often secretly; to steal away.

    • The thieves absconded with our property.
    • […] that very homesickness which, in regular armies, drives so many recruits to abscond at the risk of stripes and of death.
    • Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; / The trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

  2. To hide, to be in hiding or concealment.

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

  3. To evade, to hide or flee from.

    • The captain absconded his responsibility.
    • The driver snatched a packet of cigarettes out of the glove compartment and absconded the driver's seat without a word
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. To conceal

      To conceal; to take away.

      • 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
      • They examined every prisoner by himself (who were in all about two hundred and fifty persons) where they had absconded the rest of their goods

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Derived

abscondancy, abscondee, abscondence, absconder, abscondment, absconsion, absquatulate

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA