Usually means: Leave secretly to avoid capture.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word abscond:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. abscond: Merriam-Webster
  2. abscond: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. abscond: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. abscond: Collins English Dictionary
  5. abscond: Vocabulary.com
  6. abscond: Wordnik
  7. abscond: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. abscond: Wiktionary
  9. abscond: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. abscond: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. abscond: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. abscond: Dictionary.com
  13. abscond: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. abscond: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Abscond: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Abscond: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. abscond: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. abscond: Rhymezone
  19. abscond: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. abscond: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. abscond: FreeDictionary.org
  22. abscond: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Abscond: The Word Detective
  24. abscond: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. abscond: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  26. abscond: Merriam-Webster

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. abscond: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. abscond: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. abscond: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. abscond: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abscond: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. abscond: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abscond: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See absconded as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To flee, often secretly; to steal away.
verb:  (law) To hide, conceal, or absent oneself clandestinely, with the intent to avoid legal process
verb:  (intransitive, of bee colonies) To abandon a hive.
verb:  (intransitive) To hide, to be in hiding or concealment.
verb:  (transitive, uncommon) To evade, to hide or flee from.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To conceal; to take away.

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