Meaning

6 senses
  1. (intransitive)To flee, often secretly; to steal away.

    The thieves absconded with our property.

    sich davonmachen, türmen, davonstehlen

  2. To flee, often secretly; to steal away.

    (intransitive)To hide, conceal, or absent oneself clandestinely, with the intent to avoid legal process

  3. (intransitive)To abandon a hive.

  4. (intransitive)To hide, to be in hiding or concealment.

    sich verstecken

    скрыва́тьskryvátʹ

  5. (transitive, uncommon)To evade, to hide or flee from.

    The captain absconded his responsibility.

  6. (obsolete, transitive)To conceal; to take away.

    sich zurückziehen

    уклоня́тьсяuklonjátʹsja, избегатьizbegatʹ

More definitions
  • run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along

Examples

5 sentences
  1. Tom absconded with all the money donated for earthquake relief.

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  2. Tom absconded with the money.

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  3. He absconded with the money.

    ruОн скрылся с деньгами.

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  4. To abscond means to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.

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  5. Tom absconded with millions of dollars from his company and is living a life of luxury on an island in the Mediterranean.

    deTom ist mit ein paar Millionen Dollar seiner Firma durchgebrannt und lebt jetzt in Saus und Braus auf einer Insel irgendwo im Mittelmeer.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
intransitive: to hide:
to withdraw from:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
to flee, often secretly:
intransitive: to hide:
to withdraw from:

Origin

Either borrowed from Middle French abscondre or directly from Latin abscondō (“hide”); for

Either borrowed from Middle French abscondre or directly from Latin abscondō (“hide”); formed from abs, ab (“away”) + condō (“put together, store”), from con- (“together”) + *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, set”).

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Forms

absconds, absconding, absconded, absconded
Base formabscond · to abscond
3rd person singularabsconds
Present participleabsconding
Past simpleabsconded
Past participleabsconded

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyabscond
he, she, itabsconds

Past simpleLesson

all personsabsconded

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave absconded
he, she, ithas absconded

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill abscond

Synonyms

11 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

8 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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