ABSCOND

abscond, bolt, absquatulate, decamp, run off, go off, make off

(verb) run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along; “The thief made off with our silver”; “the accountant absconded with the cash from the safe”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Verb

abscond (third-person singular simple present absconds, present participle absconding, simple past and past participle absconded)

(intransitive, reflexive) To flee, often secretly; to steal away, particularly to avoid arrest or prosecution. [From mid 16th century.]

Synonyms: flee, run away, steal away

(intransitive) To withdraw from. [From mid 16th century.]

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

(obsolete, transitive) To conceal; to take away. [First attested in the late 16^th century.]

Synonym: conceal

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

Source: Wiktionary

Ab*scond", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Absconded; p. pr. & vb. n. Absconding.] Etym: [L. abscondere to hide; ab, abs + condere to lay up; con + dare (only in comp.) to put. Cf. Do.]

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.

Ab*scond", v. t.

Definition: To hide; to conceal. [Obs.] Bentley.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition