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Abscond   /æbskˈɑnd/   Listen
Abscond

verb
(past & past part. absconded; pres. part. absconding)
1.
Run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along.  Synonyms: absquatulate, bolt, decamp, go off, make off, run off.  "The accountant absconded with the cash from the safe"



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"Abscond" Quotes from Famous Books



... time to be made in the books, and orders to be issued, and Ch'in Chung was induced to interpose with a smirk, "In both these mansions of yours, such orders are alike in use; but were any outsider stealthily to counterfeit one and to abscond, after getting the money, what ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book I • Cao Xueqin


Words linked to "Abscond" :   take flight, flee, levant, fly


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