ABSCOND

v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To hide, withdraw, or be concealed. The marmot absconds all winter. Ray.

2.
v.

To depart clandestinely; to steal off and secrete one's self; -- used especially of persons who withdraw to avoid a legal process; as, an absconding debtor. That very homesickness which, in regular armies, drives so many recruits to abscond. Macaulay.

3.
v.

To hide; to conceal. [Obs.] Bentley.

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