Word Meanings - ABSCOND - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. To hide, withdraw, or be concealed. The marmot absconds all winter. Ray. 2. To depart clandestinely; to steal off and secrete one's self; -- used especially of persons who withdraw to avoid a legal process; as, an absconding debtor. That very
Additional info about word: ABSCOND
1. To hide, withdraw, or be concealed. The marmot absconds all winter. Ray. 2. To depart clandestinely; to steal off and secrete one's self; -- used especially of persons who withdraw to avoid a legal process; as, an absconding debtor. That very homesickness which, in regular armies, drives so many recruits to abscond. Macaulay.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ABSCOND)
- Decamp
- Start
- fly
- bolt
- abscond
- Escape
- Elude
- decamp
- flee
- evade
- avoid
- Lurk
- Hide
- lie
- skulk
- lie hid
- lie in wait
- Skulk
- sneak
- cower
- lurk
- slink
Related words: (words related to ABSCOND)
- ABSCOND
1. To hide, withdraw, or be concealed. The marmot absconds all winter. Ray. 2. To depart clandestinely; to steal off and secrete one's self; -- used especially of persons who withdraw to avoid a legal process; as, an absconding debtor. That very - STARTLINGLY
In a startling manner. - SNEAK
1. To creep or steal privately; to come or go meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to sneak away from company. imp. & p. p. "snuck" is more common now, but not even mentioned here. In MW10, simply "sneaked or snuck" You skulked - DECAMPMENT
Departure from a camp; a marching off. - SNEAK CURRENT
A current which, though too feeble to blow the usual fuse or to injure at once telegraph or telephone instruments, will in time burn them out. - STARTFULNESS
Aptness to start. - EVADE
To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pursuer, a punishment; to evade the force of an argument. The heathen had a method, more truly their - STARTISH
Apt to start; skittish; shy; -- said especially of a horse. - SNEAKING
Marked by cowardly concealment; deficient in openness and courage; underhand; mean; crouching. -- Sneak"ing*ly, adv. -- Sneak"ing*ness, n. - SNEAKY
Like a sneak; sneaking. - AVOIDLESS
Unavoidable; inevitable. - ABSCONDENCE
Fugitive concealment; secret retirement; hiding. Phillips. - AVOIDANCE
1. The act of annulling; annulment. 2. The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant; -- specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent. Wolsey, . . . - ELUDE
To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; as, to elude an officer; to elude detection, inquiry, search, comprehension; to elude the force of an argument or - DECAMP
Etym: 1. To break up a camp; to move away from a camping ground, usually by night or secretly. Macaulay. 2. Hence, to depart suddenly; to run away; -- generally used disparagingly. The fathers were ordered to decamp, and the house was once again - ESCAPEMENT
1. The act of escaping; escape. 2. Way of escape; vent. An escapement for youthful high spirits. G. Eliot. 3. The contrivance in a timepiece which connects the train of wheel work with the pendulum or balance, giving to the latter the impulse by - AVOIDER
1. The person who carries anything away, or the vessel in which things are carried away. Johnson. 2. One who avoids, shuns, or escapes. - START
sturzen to turn over, to fall, Sw. störa to cast down, to fall, Dan. styrte, and probably also to E. start a tail; the original sense being, perhaps, to show the tail, to tumble over suddenly. *166. Cf. 1. To leap; to jump. 2. To move suddenly, - STARTINGLY
By sudden fits or starts; spasmodically. Shak. - STARTLISH
Easily startled; apt to start; startish; skittish; -- said especially of a hourse. - PRELUDE
An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially , a strain introducing the theme or chief subject; a movement introductory to a fugue, yet independent; -- with - PRELUDER
One who, or that which, preludes; one who plays a prelude. Mason. - UNAVOIDED
1. Not avoided or shunned. Shak. 2. Unavoidable; inevitable. B. Jonson. - DELUDER
One who deludes; a deceiver; an impostor. - REDSTART
A small, handsome European singing bird , allied to the nightingale; -- called also redtail, brantail, fireflirt, firetail. The black redstart is P.tithys. The name is also applied to several other species of Ruticilla amnd allied genera, native - UNDERLOAD STARTER
A motor starter provided with an underload switch. - ASTARTE
A genus of bivalve mollusks, common on the coasts of America and Europe. - DISLINK
To unlink; to disunite; to separate. Tennyson.