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abscond
1. v. (intransitive, reflexive, archaic) To hide, to be in hiding or concealment.
2. v. (intransitive, reflexive) To flee, often secretly; to steal away, particularly to avoid arrest or prosecution.
3. v. (intransitive) To withdraw from.
4. v. (transitive, obsolete) To conceal; to take away.
5. v. To evade, to hide or flee from.
The captain absconded his responsibility.

Example Sentences

Duties call, and I must abscond from this, my lover's grasp.

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