Usually means: Leaves secretly to avoid capture.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. absconds: Merriam-Webster
  2. absconds: Collins English Dictionary
  3. absconds: Vocabulary.com
  4. absconds: Wordnik
  5. absconds: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. absconds: Wiktionary
  7. absconds: Dictionary.com
  8. absconds: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. absconds: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. absconds: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. absconds: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (abscond)

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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