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7 lettersPronunciation /əbˈskɒnd/Part of speech verbSorted abcdnosStarts with AEnds with D0 clues
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Definitions

  1. run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along

Word origin

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”).

Used in a sentence

  • 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.

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