abscond

1. (intransitive) To flee, often secretly; to steal away.Examples: "The thieves absconded with our property."; "[…] that very homesickness which, in regular armies, drives so many recruits to abscond at the risk of stripes and of death."; "Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; / The trees are leaving and cashiers abscond."Synonyms: flee, run away, steal awayintransitive

2. (intransitive) To flee, often secretly; to steal away.Examples: "I've often speculated why you don't return to America. Did you abscond with the church funds? Run off with a senator's wife? I like to think you killed a man. It's the Romantic in me."; "Andy did break his bargain, lurked in the neighborhood a few days, and then, being pursued by the sheriff, absconded to parts unknown."; "A printed leaflet of the Anushilan was dropped here, and at another place a manuscript of swadeshi songs, which has been proved to belong to Lal Mohan De, another member of the Samiti, who lived in Pulin's akhara and is now absconding."Synonyms: flee, run away, steal away, jump bailintransitive

3. (intransitive) To flee, often secretly; to steal away.Examples: "[European honey bees] raise large colonies, hoard large quantities of honey, are more gentle than other species and almost never abscond."Synonyms: flee, run away, steal awayintransitive

4. (intransitive) To hide, to be in hiding or concealment.Examples: "the Marmotto, […] which absconds all Winter doth […] live upon its own Fat."intransitive

5. (transitive, uncommon) To evade, to hide or flee from.Examples: "The captain absconded his responsibility."; "If the distress situation is solved successfully, the anonymous shipowner will reap the commercial benefit, if the situation ends in disaster, the shipowner will hide behind an anonymous post box in a foreign country and will abscond responsibility."; "The driver snatched a packet of cigarettes out of the glove compartment and absconded the driver's seat without a word"transitiveuncommon

6. (obsolete, transitive) To conceal; to take away.Examples: "for having applied to the Side of the Head any thin black Body, such as the Brim of a Hat, so as it may abscond the Objects that are upon that Side"; "They examined every prisoner by himself (who were in all about two hundred and fifty persons) where they had absconded the rest of their goods"Synonyms: concealobsoletetransitive