(abscond from)

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• abscond from — escape, leave, steal away …   English contemporary dictionary

• abscond — ab·scond /ab skänd, əb / vi: to depart secretly: withdraw and hide oneself; specif: to evade the legal process of a court by hiding within or secretly leaving its jurisdiction abscond ed with the funds abscond from New York abscond to Canada… …   Law dictionary

• abscond — ab|scond [əbˈskɔnd, æb US æbˈska:nd] v [i]formal [Date: 1500 1600; : Latin; Origin: abscondere, from abs away + condere to hide ] 1.) to escape from a place where you are being kept abscond from ▪ The boy absconded from a children s home. 2.) to… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• abscond — v. (D; intr.) to abscond from; with (they absconded from the country with the funds) * * * [əb skɒnd] with (they absconded from the country with the funds) (D; intr.) to abscond from …   Combinatory dictionary

• abscond — (v.) 1560s, from M.Fr. abscondre and directly from L. abscondere to hide, conceal, put out of sight, from ab(s) away (see AB (Cf. ab )) + condere put together, store, from com together (see COM (Cf. com )) + dere …   Etymology dictionary

• abscond — ► VERB ▪ leave hurriedly and secretly to escape from custody or avoid arrest. DERIVATIVES absconder noun. ORIGIN Latin abscondere hide …   English terms dictionary

• abscond — [ab skänd′, əbskänd′] vi. [L abscondere < ab(s) , from, away + condere, to hide: see RECONDITE] to go away hastily and secretly; run away and hide, esp. in order to escape the law absconder n …   English World dictionary

• abscond — UK [əbˈskɒnd] / US [əbˈskɑnd] verb [intransitive] Word forms abscond : present tense I/you/we/they abscond he/she/it absconds present participle absconding past tense absconded past participle absconded formal 1) to escape from a place where you… …   English dictionary

• abscond — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. decamp, bolt, run away, flee, fly, take off. See avoidance, escape.Ant., abide, stay. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. flee, steal off, slip away; see escape . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY… …   English dictionary for students

• abscond — ab|scond [ əb skand ] verb intransitive FORMAL 1. ) to suddenly leave a place and take something with you that does not belong to you: abscond with: One of the bank s employees had absconded with the cash. 2. ) to escape from a place where you… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• abscond — [[t]æbskɒ̱nd[/t]] absconds, absconding, absconded 1) VERB If someone absconds from somewhere such as a prison, they escape from it or leave it without permission. [FORMAL] He was remanded in care and ordered to appear the following day, but… …   English dictionary