abscond
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó
Proto-Italic *ap
Latin abder.
Latin abs-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁tder.
Proto-Italic *-ðō
Latin -dō
Latin condō
Latin abscondōder.
Middle French abscondrebor.
▲
Latin abscondōbor.
English abscond
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”).
* Cognate with sconce (“a type of light fixture”).
Inflected forms:
form: absconds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: absconding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: absconded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: absconded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To flee, often secretly; to steal away.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
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.
The driver had absconded, but both railway and county police were searching for him. Mitchell was arrested in Carlisle on June 9, 1863.
You abscond the fuck outta there and find a place to hide.
gloss: To flee, often secretly; to steal away.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
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.
Moirangthem Kalachand Singh, City Inspector, Imphal P.W. 14 searched the house of one Chaoba Singh in village Khagempali in the hope of arresting Boro Singh and Mohendra Singh accused, who were absconding in […]
Modern technology accompanies the absconding of the original attitude.
You cannot abscond from the responsibility both you and your partner owe to this event, and that includes dealing with anger issues and any other emotional issues that come with it.
gloss: To flee, often secretly; to steal away.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: [European honey bees] raise large colonies, hoard large quantities of honey, are more gentle than other species and almost never abscond.
gloss: To hide, to be in hiding or concealment.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: the Marmotto, […] which absconds all Winter doth […] live upon its own Fat.
gloss: To evade, to hide or flee from.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
uncommon
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
Those who evidently did not get invited back to their top choices have already absconded the scene, tripping in their high heels as they ran.
In 1939 she absconded her bail in Melbourne and went to New Zealand, where she also absconded on a charge of stealing diamonds.
gloss: To conceal; to take away.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
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
Related words: sconce
Derived words: abscondancy
abscondee
abscondence
absconder
abscondment
absconsion
absquatulate
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: измъквам се, заминавам тайно
roman: izmǎkvam se, zaminavam tajno
lang: Czech
word: uprchnout
lang: Czech
word: utéct
lang: Czech
word: uniknout
lang: Dutch
word: heimelijk vertrekken (van/uit)
lang: Dutch
word: zich stilletjes uit de voeten maken
lang: Dutch
word: zijn biezen pakken
lang: Finnish
word: livistää
lang: Finnish
word: luikkia
lang: Finnish
word: karata
lang: German
word: sich davonmachen
lang: German
word: türmen
lang: German
word: davonstehlen
lang: Hungarian
word: megszökik
lang: Hungarian
word: elszökik
lang: Hungarian
word: elmenekül
lang: Hungarian
word: kereket old
lang: Hungarian
word: meglóg
lang: Hungarian
word: meglép
lang: Hungarian
word: elillan
lang: Hungarian
word: továbbáll
lang: Hungarian
word: megfutamodik
lang: Irish
word: teith
lang: Italian
word: latitare
lang: Latin
word: lateo
lang: Latin
word: latito
lang: Māori
word: whati
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: rømme
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: stikke av
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: rømme
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: stikke av
lang: Persian
word: گریختن
lang: Polish
word: zbiegać
lang: Polish
word: zbiec
lang: Polish
word: uciekać
lang: Polish
word: uciec
lang: Portuguese
word: esconder-se
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: otići potajice
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: šmugnuti
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ùteći
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: umàknuti
lang: Spanish
word: fugarse
lang: Spanish
word: evadirse
lang: Spanish
word: huir
lang: Spanish
word: huirse
lang: Swedish
word: rymma
lang: Swedish
word: smita
lang: Turkish
word: kaçmak
lang: Turkish
word: sıvışmak
lang: Turkish
word: tüymek
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: قاچمق
roman: kaçmak
lang: Bulgarian
word: укривам се
roman: ukrivam se
lang: Catalan
word: abscondir
lang: Catalan
word: amagar
lang: Catalan
word: ocultar
lang: Catalan
word: escondir
lang: Dutch
word: wegrennen
lang: Finnish
word: piileskellä
lang: Finnish
word: pakoilla (oikeutta)
lang: French
word: abscondre
lang: German
word: sich verstecken
lang: Hungarian
word: elrejtőzik
lang: Hungarian
word: elbújik
lang: Italian
word: latitare
lang: Italian
word: nascondersi
lang: Italian
word: occultarsi
lang: Persian
word: پنهان شدن
lang: Polish
word: ukrywać się
lang: Polish
word: ukryć się
lang: Polish
word: chować się
lang: Polish
word: schować się
lang: Portuguese
word: esconder
lang: Portuguese
word: ocultar
lang: Russian
word: скрыва́ть
roman: skryvátʹ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: sakriti
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: prikriti
lang: Spanish
word: absconderse
lang: Spanish
word: asconderse
lang: Swedish
word: gömma sig
lang: Turkish
word: saklanmak