abscond
verb (used without object)
to depart in a sudden and secret manner, especially to avoid capture and legal prosecution.
absconds
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present tense formof abscond (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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She said the rate of absconds was "coming down substantially", with 57 cases in the year ending March 2025 compared to 143 in the year ending March 2020.
From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2026
He absconds and leaves four robots adrift, but with aid from unhoused human “robles,” they reconfigure the joint as a ramen shop — until robophobes launch a campaign to shut them down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2025
Rather than discarding the series’ dated gender dynamics, Odyssey at first appears to speed-run right into them: Bowser, Mario’s Godzilla-like nemesis for more than 30 years, absconds with Princess Peach in order to marry her.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2017
In beta decay, he speculated, a second, unseen particle emerges with the electron and absconds with a random fraction of the energy.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 29, 2017
Horace Walpole, however, uses it in the former sense: "Virette absconds, and has sent M. de Pecquigny word that he shall abscond till he can find a proper opportunity of fighting him."
From Notes and Queries, Number 233, April 15, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various
