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Someone who runs away and hides to avoid arrest or prosecution
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absconder
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a fugitive who runs away and hides to avoid arrest or prosecution
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A person who absconds. (First attested in the early 18th century.) (reference-book editor=Brown, Lesley title=The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary origyear= 1933 edition=5th year=2003 publisher=Oxford University Press location=Oxford, UK isbn =978-0-19-860575-7 ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Absconder \Ab*scond"er\, n. One who absconds.
Usage examples of absconder.
Martin Cash was a fellow countryman, born at Enniscorthy in County Wexford, and when he had been sent to Norfolk Island, he had talked freely of his exploits as absconder and bushranger, taking great pride in both.
She continued to smile at him, and despite his unkempt appearance and the prison garb that marked him an absconder, she showed no sign of being afraid of him, Michael realized, with astonishment.
Up till now, to his own surprise, all three of his fellow absconders had acted as if he were still one of them, in equal peril from outsiders-or settlers, like the Meldrums-and therefore bent, as they were, on escape.
It was time well spent, for they located a number of vessels in the port, with their names and destinations, and gave him chapter and verse of the hunt for the absconders from Port Arthur, which had apparently been going on for most of the day.
On Saturday, however, Kitty found herself alone when Dominic Hayes arrived in his carriage to pick her up, Patrick and Johnny having ridden out to interview the master of a sealer who was said to have signed on three men suspected by the police of being ticket-of-leave absconders.
From mid-November through the New Year we captured a total of eleven hard felons, eighteen traffic warrantees and three parole and probation absconders.
Gentlemen, Cruz and Villareal are now state parole absconders and priority fugitives.
There is a band of absconders, United Irishmen, hard men, living between there and Newcastle, and some of them think you may have changed sides since ninety-eight.
Sirens coming from the east, sirens coming from the west, sirens having the good grace to let any bail absconders and wanted men or women on the estate -- and there were more of them than there were working men and women -- know that they should keep indoors, draw the curtains.
On your own planet disappearances run to hundreds of thousands and not all are absconders or wife-deserters.
But taking two very small absconders would not win him a ha'porth of promotion, whereas cracking on, being brought by the lee and limping home under a jury-rig would certainly earn him some very bitter words indeed, naval stores being what they are in Sydney.