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abscond (verb) – To leave quickly and secretly and hide oneself, often to avoid arrest or prosecution.

Source : The Free Dictionary

Etymology : “Depart suddenly and secretly,” especially to escape debt or the law, 1560s, from Middle French abscondre “to hide” and directly from Latin abscondere “to hide, conceal, put out of sight,” from assimilated form of ab “off, away from” + condere “put together, store,” from assimilated form of com- “together” + -dere “put,” from PIE root *dhe- “to put, place.”

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