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Abscond   Listen
verb
Abscond  v. i.  (past & past part. absconded; pres. part. absconding)  
1.
To hide, withdraw, or be concealed. "The marmot absconds all winter."
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."





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"Abscond" Quotes from Famous Books



... a little to hesitate at my Design, upon being informed, that the Captain was not here to answer for himself; thinking it something Dishonourable to attack a Man in this Method that was obliged to abscond; but when I considered that if these Enormities were not to be taken notice of, till the Author should venture to come into Great Britain, they might wholly pass with Impunity, my Dilemna was no more: ...
— A Letter From a Clergyman to his Friend, - with an Account of the Travels of Captain Lemuel Gulliver • Anonymous


Words linked to "Abscond" :   absquatulate, fly, absconder, go off, abscondment, run off, flee


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