abscond

abscond

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

1. (intransitive) To hide; to withdraw; to be concealed :
   • The rabbit absconds to avoid detection from predators
2. (intransitive) To depart secretly; to steal away, particularly to avoid arrest or prosecution :
   • 1848: Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England, Ch. 13

     ... that very homesickness which, in regular armies, drives so many recruits to abscond at the risk of stripes and of death.

   • 1911: Ambrose Bierce, The Devils Dictionary

     Spring beckons! All things to the call respond;
     The trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

3. (intransitive) To withdraw from, to leave from; to hide from :
   • She absconded the feast.
   • The captain absconded his responsibility.
4. (transitive) (obsolete) To hide [something], to conceal [something]; to take away [something] :
   • “They try to abscond his wages [...]” — National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation Inc, 15 February 2005 news release [1].

	fuggire
	To depart secretly.

rendersi latitante

scappare

sparire

Altri significati:

(intransitive) To depart secretly; to steal away, particularly to avoid arrest or prosecution :

to depart secretly

(transitive) (obsolete) To hide [something], to conceal [something]; to take away [something] :

(intransitive) To hide; to withdraw; to be concealed :

to hide

(intransitive) To withdraw from, to leave from; to hide from :

to withdraw from

Traduzione 'veloce'

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