ABSCOND Synonyms

• flee; take to one's heels; cut and run

• escape from the control of

• a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder

• a sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech

• the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key

• the act of moving with great haste

• a roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length

• a screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener

• a sudden abandonment (as from a political party)

• in a rigid manner

• directly

• move or jump suddenly

• secure or lock with a bolt

• swallow hastily

• run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along

• leave suddenly and as if in a hurry

• eat hastily without proper chewing

• make or roll into bolts

• leave a camp

• run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along

• leave suddenly

• run away secretly with one's beloved

• the act of escaping physically

• an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy

• nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do

• an avoidance of danger or difficulty

• a means or way of escaping

• a plant originally cultivated but now growing wild

• the discharge of a fluid from some container

• a valve in a container in which pressure can build up (as a steam boiler); it opens automatically when the pressure reaches a dangerous level

• run away from confinement

• fail to experience

• escape potentially unpleasant consequences; get away with a forbidden action

• be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by

• remove oneself from a familiar environment, usually for pleasure or diversion

• flee; take to one's heels; cut and run

• issue or leak, as from a small opening

• a gait in which steps and hops alternate

• a mistake resulting from neglect

• bypass

• intentionally fail to attend

• jump lightly

• leave suddenly

• bound off one point after another

• cause to skip over a surface

• get lost, as without warning or explanation

• become invisible or unnoticeable

• pass away rapidly

• cease to exist

• decrease rapidly and disappear

• prevent from being seen or discovered

• hold back; keep from being perceived by others

• leave furtively and stealthily

• run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along

• run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along

• be discharged or activated

• go off or discharge

• stop running, functioning, or operating

• happen in a particular manner

• burst inward

• run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along

• run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along

• leave suddenly and as if in a hurry

• force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings

• run away secretly with one's beloved

• run off as waste

• reproduce by xerography

• decide (a contest or competition) by a runoff