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All abscond synonyms

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verb abscond

  • run away — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
  • break — When an object breaks or when you break it, it suddenly separates into two or more pieces, often because it has been hit or dropped.
  • hightail — to go away or leave rapidly: Last we saw of him, he was hightailing down the street.
  • fade — to lose brightness or vividness of color.
  • skedaddle — to run away hurriedly; flee.
  • get — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
  • jump — to spring clear of the ground or other support by a sudden muscular effort; leap: to jump into the air; to jump out a window.
  • scram — to go away; get out (usually used as a command): I said I was busy, so scram.
  • quit — to stop, cease, or discontinue: She quit what she was doing to help me paint the house.
  • leave — to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
  • decamp — If you decamp, you go away from somewhere secretly or suddenly.
  • bolt — A bolt is a long metal object which screws into a nut and is used to fasten things together.
  • slip — to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
  • vanish — to disappear from sight, especially quickly; become invisible: The frost vanished when the sun came out.
  • flee — to run away, as from danger or pursuers; take flight.
  • vamoose — to leave hurriedly or quickly; decamp.
  • disappear — to cease to be seen; vanish from sight.
  • split — to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
  • go off — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
  • absquatulate — to leave; decamp
  • beat it — to go away
  • clear out — If you tell someone to clear out of a place or to clear out, you are telling them rather rudely to leave the place.
  • make off — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
  • pull out — to draw or haul toward oneself or itself, in a particular direction, or into a particular position: to pull a sled up a hill.
  • take off — the act of taking.
  • cut and run — to make a rapid escape
  • dog it — a domesticated canid, Canis familiaris, bred in many varieties.
  • duck out — leave secretly
  • fly the coop — an enclosure, cage, or pen, usually with bars or wires, in which fowls or other small animals are confined for fattening, transportation, etc.
  • go awol — a soldier or other military person who is absent from duty without leave.
  • go south — fail, go bad
  • run off — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
  • skip out — leave, flee
  • break out — If something such as war, fighting, or disease breaks out, it begins suddenly.
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