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absconder en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /æbˈskɑn.dɚ/ (US)
• /æbˈzkɑn.dɚ/ (US)
• /æbˈskɒn.də/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Italic *ap Latin abder. Latin abs- Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁tder. Proto-Italic *-ðō Latin -dō Latin condō Latin abscondōder. Middle French abscondrebor. ▲ Latin abscondōbor. English abscond Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English absconder From abscond + -er.

Meanings

1. A person who absconds.
   • He smiled at the view over the hedge, at the other front gardens, at the approaching Rover and then its driver, squinting in a rictus of his own against the evening sun, and making Paul feel again like an intruder, or now perhaps an absconder. 2011, Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger’s Child, Knopf Canada, Part Three, Chapter 1:
   • Steve and I sneaked immediately, like beaten curs, like cowards, like absconders from justice. 1910, Jack London, “That Spot”, in Lost Face, New York: Macmillan, page 112:
   • What else could it all mean but that Mr. Robert Weymouth was an absconder—was about to fly with the bank’s remaining funds […] 1909, O. Henry, “The Guardian of the Accolade”, in Roads of Destiny, Doubleday Page, page 33:
   • […] unless such an Act of Grace do reach insolvent Absconders, who to shun the Cruelty of their severe Creditors confine themselves out of their Reach, ’tis humbly conceived, ’twill be but half an Act of Grace. 1696, Considerations upon the Bill for the Relief of Poor Prisoners,:

Forms

Translations (4)

nl drosser (one who absconds) · hi भगोड़ा (one who absconds) · de Ausreißer (one who absconds) · de Flüchtiger (one who absconds)