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synonyms for abscond

  • bolt
  • break
  • decamp
  • disappear
  • escape
  • fade
  • flee
  • get
  • hightail
  • jump
  • leave
  • quit
  • scram
  • skedaddle
  • slip
  • split
  • vamoose
  • vanish
  • beat it
  • clear out
  • cut and run
  • dog it
  • duck out
  • fly the coop
  • go AWOL
  • go south
  • make a break
  • make off
  • make scarce
  • pull out
  • run off
  • skip out
  • sneak away
  • steal away
  • take off
See also synonyms for: absconded / absconder

antonyms for abscond

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  • appear
  • arrive
  • come
  • continue
  • face
  • join
  • remain
  • stay
  • strengthen
  • wait
  • abide
  • endure
  • give up
  • stop
  • yield
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How to use abscond in a sentence

Girls Night Out is a three-volume series that follows the adventures of a woman with dementia and her friends, who abscond from a nursing home.
KAPOW!LEIGH BUCHANANJUNE 29, 2022MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
Somebody had been out in front of my house at nighttime, propped my car up and absconded with my catalytic converter.
CATALYTIC CONVERTER THEFTS HAVE SURGED DURING THE PANDEMIC. POLICE ARE FIGHTING BACK.DONOVAN THOMASOCTOBER 8, 2021WASHINGTON POST
Sehon eventually reappeared, possibly after absconding to Tijuana.
POLITICS REPORT: THE ELECTION AFTER THE ELECTION IS UNDERWAYANDREW KEATTS AND SCOTT LEWISOCTOBER 10, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGO
That was then required, and no one could really think I would abscond and leave my old guardian in the lurch.
MILES WALLINGFORDJAMES FENIMORE COOPER
He had settled with Houseman that he would abscond that very night, not wait for the next, as at first he had intended.
EUGENE ARAM, COMPLETEEDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Yea, they make a solemn oath to each other not to abscond or conceal the least thing they find amongst the prey.
THE BUCCANEERS IN THE WEST INDIES IN THE XVII CENTURYCLARENCE HENRY HARING
Mexicans also appreciate the pithaya, and servants frequently abscond at that time, in order to get the fruit.
UNKNOWN MEXICO, VOLUME 1 (OF 2)CARL LUMHOLTZ
Could the coolie possibly abscond with a bag of mail under the very eyes of an officer?
THE PACIFIC TRIANGLESYDNEY GREENBIE
They are turned out among the gang, without special permanent restraint, and abscond again.
THE HISTORY OF TASMANIA , VOLUME II (OF 2)JOHN WEST
I wondered what upon earth had become of him, but felt certain he was too true a friend to abscond with my half of the shirt.
TWENTY YEARS OF HUS'LINGJ. P. JOHNSTON
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OCTOBER 26, 1985
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WORDS RELATED TO ABSCOND

  • abscond
  • bolt
  • break out
  • cut and run
  • decamp
  • depart
  • disappear
  • flee
  • get away
  • hightail
  • make a getaway
  • run away
  • scram
  • take flight
  • vamoose
  • vanish
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.