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abscondab‧scond /əbˈskɒnd, æb- $ æbˈskɑːnd/ verb [intransitive] formal abscondOrigin: 1500-1600 Latin abscondere, from abs- ‘away’ + condere ‘to hide’ VERB TABLEabscond |
Present | I, you, we, they | abscond | | he, she, it | absconds | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | absconded | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have absconded | | he, she, it | has absconded | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had absconded | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will abscond | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have absconded |
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Present | I | am absconding | | he, she, it | is absconding | | you, we, they | are absconding | Past | I, he, she, it | was absconding | | you, we, they | were absconding | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been absconding | | he, she, it | has been absconding | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been absconding | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be absconding | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been absconding |
- Bedford had a clear memory of the day the news had struck that Schuyler had absconded.
- Clarke surrounded the building, but the brothers had been forewarned and had absconded.
- Patients who absconded were always accepted back, whether their medical condition warranted it or not.
- Scroggins and Payne, Messrs, debt collectors and employers of Captain Helves, who abscond with part of their funds.
- That incident led to the man absconding from the prison just weeks before his sentence was due to end.
- The boy admitted five charges of joyriding and absconding while on bail.
- The other seven had in the meantime absconded.
- They could stay if they so chose or they could abscond.
► escape to leave a place when someone is trying to catch you or stop you, or when there is a dangerous situation: · The thief escaped through an upstairs window.· She managed to escape from her attacker and call the police. ► get away to escape from someone who is chasing you, especially when there is no chance that you will be caught. Get away is more informal than escape: · The robbers got away but left plenty of clues at the scene.· Don’t let him get away! ► break free/break away to escape from someone who is holding you: · She broke free and started running. ► flee written to leave somewhere very quickly in order to escape from danger: · Many people were forced to flee the country.· The two men fled before police arrived. ► get out to escape from a building or room: · I was locked in the room and couldn’t get out. ► break out to escape from prison: · The jail is so secure that no one has ever broken out of it. ► abscond formal to escape from a prison or institution where you are supposed to stay: · Three prisoners who absconded have still not been found.· He absconded from a psychiatric hospital. 1to escape from a place where you are being keptabscond from The boy absconded from a children’s home.► see thesaurus at escape2to secretly leave somewhere, taking with you something that does not belong to youabscond with He has to convince a judge that he wasn’t going to abscond with the money. |