Tuesday word: Abscond

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Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023

Abscond (verb)
ab·scond [ab-skond]

verb (used without object)
1. to depart in a sudden and secret manner, especially to avoid capture and legal prosecution: The cashier absconded with the money.

OTHER WORDS FROM ABSCOND
ab·scond·er, noun

WORDS RELATED TO ABSCOND
bolt, break, decamp, disappear, escape, fade, flee, get, hightail, jump, leave, quit, scram, skedaddle, slip, split, vamoose, vanish, beat it, clear out

See synonyms for: abscond / absconded / absconder on Thesaurus.com
OTHER WORDS FOR ABSCOND
decamp, bolt.

ORIGIN: First recorded in 1605–15; from Latin abscondere “to hide or stow away,” equivalent to abs- abs- + condere “to stow” (con- con- + -dere “to put”; see do)

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 BUCHANAN|JUNE 29, 2022|MIT 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 THOMAS|OCTOBER 8, 2021|WASHINGTON POST

Sehon eventually reappeared, possibly after absconding to Tijuana.
POLITICS REPORT: THE ELECTION AFTER THE ELECTION IS UNDERWAY|ANDREW KEATTS AND SCOTT LEWIS|OCTOBER 10, 2020|VOICE OF SAN DIEGO

The Hashemites will not just surrender power and abscond to South Kensington.
WHAT A ROMNEY WIN MEANS FOR ISRAEL|BERNARD AVISHAI|NOVEMBER 5, 2012|DAILY BEAST

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[prettygoodword]

Get away with ya!