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What does abscond mean?

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Verb
  1. (intransitive, reflexive, archaic) To hide, to be in hiding or concealment.
  2. (intransitive, reflexive) To flee, often secretly; to steal away, particularly to avoid arrest or prosecution. [From mid 16th century.]
  3. (intransitive) To withdraw from. [From mid 16th century.]
  4. (transitive, obsolete) To conceal; to take away. [First attested in the late 16th century.]
  5. (transitive) To evade, to hide or flee from.
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The court should take into account the possibility that such negative impacts of detention will make the woman less likely to abscond.
She is enjoying significant unescorted ground leave and has not endeavoured to abscond.
A power of arrest is provided in respect of a person who is evading the order or is about to abscond.
Though men brewed the arrack, police arrest women as the men abscond the moment police arrive on the scene.
He said that a person with outstanding warrants is more likely to abscond from bail, wasting more police and court time.
The pretext for the refusal was that the defendant may abscond and could threaten key witnesses yet to be called.

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