abscond

verb

1. (intransitive)To flee, often secretly; to steal away.

   “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.”

   “The driver had absconded, but both railway and county police were searching for him. Mitchell was arrested in Carlisle on June 9, 1863.”

   “You abscond the fuck outta there and find a place to hide.”

2. (intransitive)To flee, often secretly; to steal away.

   “I've often speculated why you don't return to America. Did you abscond with the church funds? Run off with a senator's wife? I like to think you killed a man. It's the Romantic in me.”

   “Andy did break his bargain, lurked in the neighborhood a few days, and then, being pursued by the sheriff, absconded to parts unknown.”

   “A printed leaflet of the Anushilan was dropped here, and at another place a manuscript of swadeshi songs, which has been proved to belong to Lal Mohan De, another member of the Samiti, who lived in Pulin's akhara and is now absconding.”

   “Moirangthem Kalachand Singh, City Inspector, Imphal P.W. 14 searched the house of one Chaoba Singh in village Khagempali in the hope of arresting Boro Singh and Mohendra Singh accused, who were absconding in […]”

   “Modern technology accompanies the absconding of the original attitude.”

3. (intransitive)To flee, often secretly; to steal away.

   “[European honey bees] raise large colonies, hoard large quantities of honey, are more gentle than other species and almost never abscond.”

4. (intransitive)To hide, to be in hiding or concealment.

   “the Marmotto, […] which absconds all Winter doth […] live upon its own Fat.”

5. (transitive, uncommon)To evade, to hide or flee from.

   “The captain absconded his responsibility.”

   “If the distress situation is solved successfully, the anonymous shipowner will reap the commercial benefit, if the situation ends in disaster, the shipowner will hide behind an anonymous post box in a foreign country and will abscond responsibility.”

   “The driver snatched a packet of cigarettes out of the glove compartment and absconded the driver's seat without a word”

   “Those who evidently did not get invited back to their top choices have already absconded the scene, tripping in their high heels as they ran.”

   “In 1939 she absconded her bail in Melbourne and went to New Zealand, where she also absconded on a charge of stealing diamonds.”

6. (obsolete, transitive)To conceal; to take away.

   “for having applied to the Side of the Head any thin black Body, such as the Brim of a Hat, so as it may abscond the Objects that are upon that Side”

   “They examined every prisoner by himself (who were in all about two hundred and fifty persons) where they had absconded the rest of their goods”