abscond
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verb (used without object)
to depart in a sudden and secret manner, especially to avoid capture and legal prosecution: The cashier absconded with the money.
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| —vb | |
| (intr) to run away secretly, esp from an open institution or to avoid prosecution or punishment | |
| [C16: from Latin abscondere to hide, put away, from abs- | |
| ab'sconder | |
| —n | |
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Abscond
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Word Origin & History
abscond
1560s, from L. abscondere "to hide, conceal," from ab(s)- "away" + condere "put together, store," from com- "together" + dere "put," from PIE *dhe- "to put, place, make" (see factitious). The notion is of "to hide oneself," especially to escape debt or the law.
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Example sentences
Souder, that the salesman had absconded with their money and never recorded the deeds.
The measures of recidivism were return to prison as a violator or abscond from parole.
Then they refinance and abscond with the owners' equity.
Alas, soon her new friends are attacked by phantoms that destroy their homes and abscond with their possessions.
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