ABSCONDED Synonyms: 60 Similar and Opposite Words

absconded

verb

past tense of abscond

as in escaped

to get free from a dangerous or confining situation the burglar was trying to abscond with the jewels when he tumbled down the stairs

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Recent Examples of absconded His brooding blue eyes are being absconded with by a Sri Lankan eBay user. — Paul Flahive, Austin American Statesman, 30 Jan. 2026 The Natives absconded with some cattle, as well as with a young widow named Camila. — Carolina A. Miranda, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2026 Guthrie and her siblings recorded videos, pleading for news, for help, for a merciful change of heart from whoever had absconded with their mom. — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2026 The Original scored with a low blow and absconded a bull rope from El Grande II. — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026 Mercury was already known to police as a troubled youth who’d frequently absconded from home and detention centers. — Hilary Whiteman, CNN Money, 28 Feb. 2026 Three months later, another seven players from the senior national team absconded in the same country. — Nick Miller, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026 Vandals stole the control stick out of an R train in December while it was parked underground in southern Brooklyn, a month after an unknown thief absconded with two-way radios from a specialized work train parked in the Coney Island Yard. — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 6 May 2026 Court records show that Rostas, who was in immigration removal proceedings in New York and placed into the Alternative to Detention program, absconded from the program in March 2023. — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2026

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William Carney, a man who escaped slavery to become a Union soldier in the Civil War and who was awarded the Medal of Honor for protecting the American flag from touching the ground during battle.

— Diego Mendoza, CNN Money, 4 July 2026
Born enslaved in Maryland, Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) escaped to the North and emerged as the nation’s leading abolitionist and major literary political figure of his time.

— Melia Patria, ABC News, 4 July 2026

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In March 2024, Rice was involved in a high-speed multi-vehicle crash in Dallas, then fled the scene.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 3 July 2026
The number of animals in his care has multiplied since the outbreak of the latest Israel-Hezbollah war, as hundreds of thousands of southern Lebanon residents fled and were unable to take their pets or farm animals.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 July 2026

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