Crossword clues for absconded
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Abscond \Ab*scond"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Absconded; p. pr. & vb. n. Absconding.] [L. abscondere to hide; ab, abs + condere to lay up; con + d[a^]re (only in comp.) to put. Cf. Do.]
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To hide, withdraw, or be concealed.
The marmot absconds all winter.
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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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: abscond)
Usage examples of "absconded".
Bushranging was revived on an unprecedented scale, so were crimes of violence, and men absconded almost at will.
At night he has my watch, passport, and half my money, and I often wonder what would become of me if he absconded before morning.
Loiterers assembled, but no one came to draw the vehicle, and by degrees the dismal truth leaked out that the three coolies who had been impressed for the occasion had all absconded, and that four policemen were in search of them.
Potomac, searching for an ex-clerk of the Treasury Department, James Taliaferro, who had absconded with important documents.
Collier absconded, and published a vindication of their conduct, in which he affirmed that the imposition of hands was the general practice of the primitive church.
One Saturday afternoon he absconded and turned himself in at the local police station a few hours later.
The dire lucklessness of it was that, while his sons escaped or absconded, the daughter was trapped.
And when he tires of waiting for his instructions he opens the package and discovers that you have absconded with the necklace and left him the receptacle containing the pebbles.
Vienna, whither he had absconded, of a pike-thrust received from a sentry in a brawl.
I might have known, I suppose it was you who lent her my horse, which your rapscallion of a brother stole from me when he absconded from the army.