intr.v., -scond·ed, -scond·ing, -sconds.
To leave quickly and secretly and hide oneself, often to avoid arrest or prosecution.
[Latin abscondere, to hide : abs-, ab-, away; see ab-1 + condere, to put.]
absconder ab·scond'er n.
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