Abscond
verb
To run away secretly, usually to avoid arrest or any legal obligations.
The criminal absconded with all the stolen goods.
Often appears as...
- abscond with
- abscond from
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Formal
verb
To leave hurriedly and secretly, typically to escape from custody or avoid legal problems.
He absconded from the prison in the middle of the night.
Often appears as...
- abscond from prison
- abscond from court
Usage tips
Formal
verb
To run away secretly, usually to avoid arrest or any legal obligations.
The criminal absconded with all the stolen goods.
Often appears as...
- abscond with
- abscond from
Usage tips
Formal
verb
To leave hurriedly and secretly, typically to escape from custody or avoid legal problems.
He absconded from the prison in the middle of the night.
Often appears as...
- abscond from prison
- abscond from court
Usage tips
Formal
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Abscond often has a negative meaning, suggesting wrongful or sneaky behavior.
The CEO absconded with the company's funds.
Pro Tip 2/3Sudden Departure
Abscond implies leaving quickly and secretly, especially to avoid trouble.
Upon hearing the police sirens, he decided to abscond.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Physical
One can abscond with items, not only flee a place. It implies taking something or someone.
The thieves absconded with priceless art.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Abscond often has a negative meaning, suggesting wrongful or sneaky behavior.
The CEO absconded with the company's funds.
Pro Tip 2/3Sudden Departure
Abscond implies leaving quickly and secretly, especially to avoid trouble.
Upon hearing the police sirens, he decided to abscond.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Physical
One can abscond with items, not only flee a place. It implies taking something or someone.
The thieves absconded with priceless art.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Abscond often has a negative meaning, suggesting wrongful or sneaky behavior.
The CEO absconded with the company's funds.
Pro Tip 2/3Sudden Departure
Abscond implies leaving quickly and secretly, especially to avoid trouble.
Upon hearing the police sirens, he decided to abscond.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Physical
One can abscond with items, not only flee a place. It implies taking something or someone.
The thieves absconded with priceless art.
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Could we speak the...
We don't know for sure if they really understand the function of the whistles. Okay, so here's a second toy in the water. This is a scarf toy, and I'm trying to lead the dolphin over to the keyboard to show her the visual and the acoustic signal. Now this dolphin, we call her "the scarf thief," because over the years she's absconded
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Can we regenerate heart...
for how to go from a single fertilized egg all the way over to a human cardiovascular system. So we shamelessly absconded all of this information and tried to make human cardiovascular development happen in a dish. It took us about five years, but nowadays, we can get 90 percent of our stem cells to turn into cardiac muscle --
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Kenya’s Wildlife...
was sent off to secretarial college so that i would become a good secretary because that was what girls did in those days and i survived three months of it and then i ran away with a friend of mine we both absconded and we went to the national museums of kenya and went and knocked on richard leaky's door like help
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Safari Live - Day 218 PIPE...
than it's been four months certainly since the arrival of amore but I'm not sure how much South he's going at the moment he certainly pressured from the north I think he's probably gonna start expanding further west again because hoping what he seems to have absconded almost exclusive
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Safari Live - Day 42 PIPE...
keep to my plan which was to come to this crossing to see what was going on and nothing is going on at all there's some hippo there and the great massing of animals that was here earlier has absconded where they've gone I couldn't begin to tell you I don't think they're
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Safari Live - Day 154 PIPE...
are we live we didn't hear that we were going to go live sorry about that everybody we were sitting here with some magpie Fricks and they have now absconded unfortunately and if I go back towards where they've gone I think we'll
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Painted Dog PIPE National...
so one of the disgruntled moms decides to take matters into her own mouth she kidnaps a puffer and absconds women she in the cohort carry it back to another borough of course the dominant female
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Safari Live - Day 222 PIPE...
and have absconded after their meal was stolen from them now if you haven't met the Avoca boys before well this is them and from their looks I'd say they're probably about four years old now and
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Safari Live - Day 214 PIPE...
colleagues maybe at the moment he does have something interesting no I don't write I've come to where they last had the wild dogs but the wild dogs appeared to have absconded and I suspect
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Safari Live - Day 384 PIPE...
closing time in the path but I also suspected suppose the Lions have absconded hello my dear it's lovely to see you if you could lie
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Could we speak the...
We don't know for sure if they really understand the function of the whistles. Okay, so here's a second toy in the water. This is a scarf toy, and I'm trying to lead the dolphin over to the keyboard to show her the visual and the acoustic signal. Now this dolphin, we call her "the scarf thief," because over the years she's absconded
Video examples
Can we regenerate heart...
for how to go from a single fertilized egg all the way over to a human cardiovascular system. So we shamelessly absconded all of this information and tried to make human cardiovascular development happen in a dish. It took us about five years, but nowadays, we can get 90 percent of our stem cells to turn into cardiac muscle --
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Kenya’s Wildlife...
was sent off to secretarial college so that i would become a good secretary because that was what girls did in those days and i survived three months of it and then i ran away with a friend of mine we both absconded and we went to the national museums of kenya and went and knocked on richard leaky's door like help
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Safari Live - Day 218 PIPE...
than it's been four months certainly since the arrival of amore but I'm not sure how much South he's going at the moment he certainly pressured from the north I think he's probably gonna start expanding further west again because hoping what he seems to have absconded almost exclusive
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Safari Live - Day 42 PIPE...
keep to my plan which was to come to this crossing to see what was going on and nothing is going on at all there's some hippo there and the great massing of animals that was here earlier has absconded where they've gone I couldn't begin to tell you I don't think they're
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Safari Live - Day 154 PIPE...
are we live we didn't hear that we were going to go live sorry about that everybody we were sitting here with some magpie Fricks and they have now absconded unfortunately and if I go back towards where they've gone I think we'll
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Painted Dog PIPE National...
so one of the disgruntled moms decides to take matters into her own mouth she kidnaps a puffer and absconds women she in the cohort carry it back to another borough of course the dominant female
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Safari Live - Day 222 PIPE...
and have absconded after their meal was stolen from them now if you haven't met the Avoca boys before well this is them and from their looks I'd say they're probably about four years old now and
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Safari Live - Day 214 PIPE...
colleagues maybe at the moment he does have something interesting no I don't write I've come to where they last had the wild dogs but the wild dogs appeared to have absconded and I suspect
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Safari Live - Day 384 PIPE...
closing time in the path but I also suspected suppose the Lions have absconded hello my dear it's lovely to see you if you could lie
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Quote examples
Mike Pompeo
American Politician
When I served in the Army, along the Iron Curtain we had a word for a person who absconds with information and provides it to another nation: traitor. We also had a name for a person who chooses to reveal secrets he had personally promised to protect: common criminal.
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Seamus Heaney
Irish Poet
I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded.
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Ambrose Bierce
American Journalist
Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
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Ambrose Bierce
American Journalist
Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
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Mike Pompeo
American Politician
When I served in the Army, along the Iron Curtain we had a word for a person who absconds with information and provides it to another nation: traitor. We also had a name for a person who chooses to reveal secrets he had personally promised to protect: common criminal.
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Seamus Heaney
Irish Poet
I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded.
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Ambrose Bierce
American Journalist
Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
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Ambrose Bierce
American Journalist
Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
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