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ABSCOND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does abscond mean? 

ABSCOND (verb)
  The verb ABSCOND has 1 sense:

1. run away; usually includes taking something or somebody alongplay

  Familiarity information: ABSCOND used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ABSCOND (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they abscond  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it absconds  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: absconded  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: absconded  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: absconding  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

abscond; absquatulate; bolt; decamp; go off; make off; run off

Context example:

the accountant absconded with the cash from the safe

Hypernyms (to "abscond" is one way to...):

flee; fly; take flight (run away quickly)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "abscond"):

levant (run off without paying a debt)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

absconder (a fugitive who runs away and hides to avoid arrest or prosecution)

abscondment (the act of running away secretly (as to avoid arrest))


 Context examples 


At last we were getting something positive, and yet it seemed a long gap between an absconding banker and Captain Peter Carey pinned against the wall with one of his own harpoons.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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