Synonyms of the word abscond


ABSCONDABSQUATULATE - BOLT - DECAMP - FLEE - FLY

abscond

  • v. (intransitive, reflexive, archaic) To hide, to be in hiding or concealment.
  • v. (intransitive, reflexive) To flee, often secretly; to steal away, particularly to avoid arrest or prosecution.
  • v. (intransitive) To withdraw from.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To conceal; to take away.
  • v. (transitive) To evade, to hide or flee from.

absquatulate

  • v. (intransitive, slang) To leave quickly or in a hurry; to take oneself off; to decamp; to depart, flee.
  • v. (intransitive, slang) to abscond.

bolt

  • n. A (usually) metal fastener consisting of a cylindrical body that is threaded, with a larger head on one…
  • n. A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.
  • n. A bar of wood or metal dropped in horizontal hooks on a door and adjoining wall or between the two sides…
  • n. A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.
  • n. A small personal-armour-piercing missile for short-range use, or (in common usage though deprecated by…
  • n. A lightning spark, i.e., a lightning bolt.
  • n. A sudden event, action or emotion.
  • n. A large roll of fabric or similar material, as a bolt of cloth.
  • n. (nautical) The standard linear measurement of canvas for use at sea: 39 yards.
  • n. A sudden spring or start; a sudden leap aside.
  • n. A sudden flight, as to escape creditors.
  • n. (US, politics) A refusal to support a nomination made by the party with which one has been connected;…
  • n. An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
  • v. To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt.
  • v. To secure a door by locking or barring it.
  • v. (intransitive) To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to start or spring forth; to dislodge (an animal being hunted).
  • v. To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
  • v. (intransitive) To escape.
  • v. (intransitive, botany) Of a plant, to grow quickly; to go to seed.
  • v. To swallow food without chewing it.
  • v. To drink one's drink very quickly; to down a drink.
  • v. (US, politics) To refuse to support a nomination made by a party or caucus with which one has been connected;…
  • v. To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out.
  • adv. Suddenly; straight; unbendingly.
  • v. To sift, especially through a cloth.
  • v. To sift the bran and germ from wheat flour.
  • v. To separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means.
  • v. (law) To discuss or argue privately, and for practice, as cases at law.
  • n. A sieve, especially a long fine sieve used in milling for bolting flour and meal; a bolter.

decamp

  • v. (intransitive) To break up camp and move on.
  • v. (intransitive) To disappear suddenly and secretly.

flee

  • v. (intransitive) To run away; to escape.
  • v. (transitive) To escape from.
  • v. (intransitive) To disappear quickly; to vanish.

fly

  • n. (rural, Scotland, Northern England) A wing.
  • n. (zoology) Any insect of the order Diptera; characterized by having two wings (except for some wingless…
  • n. (non-technical) Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other…
  • n. Any similar, but unrelated insect such as dragonfly or butterfly.
  • n. (fishing) A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.
  • n. (weightlifting) A chest exercise performed by moving extended arms from the sides to in front of the chest…
  • n. (obsolete) A witch's familiar.
  • n. (obsolete) A parasite.
  • n. (swimming) The butterfly stroke (plural is normally flys).
  • v. (intransitive) To travel through the air, another gas, or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded…
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, archaic, poetic) To flee, to escape (from).
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.
  • v. (intransitive, colloquial, of a proposal, project or idea) To be accepted, come about or work out.
  • v. (intransitive) To travel very fast.
  • v. To move suddenly, or with violence; to do an act suddenly or swiftly.
  • v. To hunt with a hawk.
  • v. (transitive) To display a flag on a flagpole.
  • n. (obsolete) The action of flying; flight.
  • n. An act of flying.
  • n. (baseball) A fly ball.
  • n. (now historical) A type of small, fast carriage (sometimes pluralised flys).
  • n. A piece of canvas that covers the opening at the front of a tent.
  • n. A strip of material hiding the zipper, buttons etc. at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, underpants,…
  • n. The free edge of a flag.
  • n. The horizontal length of a flag.
  • n. Butterfly, a form of swimming.
  • n. (weightlifting) An exercise that involves wide opening and closing of the arms perpendicular to the shoulders.
  • n. The part of a vane pointing the direction from which the wind blows.
  • n. (nautical) That part of a compass on which the points are marked; the compass card.
  • n. Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of…
  • n. A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the…
  • n. In a knitting machine, the piece hinged to the needle, which holds the engaged loop in position while…
  • n. The pair of arms revolving around the bobbin, in a spinning wheel or spinning frame, to twist the yarn.
  • n. (weaving) A shuttle driven through the shed by a blow or jerk.
  • n. (printing, historical) The person who took the printed sheets from the press.
  • n. (printing, historical) A vibrating frame with fingers, attached to a power printing press for doing the…
  • n. One of the upper screens of a stage in a theatre.
  • n. (cotton manufacture) waste cotton.
  • v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground…
  • adj. (slang, dated) Quick-witted, alert, mentally sharp.
  • adj. (slang) Well dressed, smart in appearance.
  • adj. (slang) Beautiful; displaying physical beauty.

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