Definitions for abscond

abscond ab·scond

Spelling: [ab-skond]
IPA: /æbˈskɒnd/

Abscond is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 206 anagrams from letters in abscond (abcdnos).

Definitions for abscond

verb (used without object)

  1. to depart in a sudden and secret manner, especially to avoid capture and legal prosecution:

Origin of abscond

1605-15; Latin abscondere to hide or stow away, equivalent to abs- abs- + condere to stow (con- con- + -dere to put; see do<

Examples for abscond

One would think there was something wrong—that you were about to abscond.'

In November, 1876, Trinquet and some of his comrades managed to abscond in a steamboat.

And he could not abscond with the balance, because that would mean the loss of Margaret.

His life was safe if either of these men could be persuaded to abscond.

He had cornered her, only to have her abscond into neutral territory.

The Hashemites will not just surrender power and abscond to South Kensington.

This was in harmony with her original suspicion, that he intended secretly to abscond.

Those likely to abscond, or belonging to other Cantons, are not accepted.

The great favorites at Court, Priests and Jesuits, fly or abscond.

He is just the man to abscond with all the money and leave us in the lurch, the scoundrel!

Word Value for abscond
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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