abscondee

noun

Etymology

From abscond + -ee.

  1. borrowed from abscondō
  2. borrowed from abscondre
  3. suffixed as abscondee — “abscond + -ee

Definitions

  1. A person who has absconded.

    • An investigator begins an intensive search for the abscondee.
    • A Plot in Private Life, a Collins novella, sets Mr Dark, a lawyer's clerk, on the train of an abscondee.
    • Hong Kong's leader, John Lee, put it more starkly. "The only way to end their destiny of being an abscondee who will be pursued for life is to surrender," he said on Tuesday.
  2. A person who is abandoned by an absconder.

    • The self-pity of the absconder against the bitter clarity of the left-behind, the abscondee.

The neighborhood

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