absconder

English

Etymology

abscond +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æbˈskɑn.dɚ/, /æbˈzkɑn.dɚ/
• IPA^(key): /æbˈskɒn.dɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɒndə(ɹ)

Noun

absconder (plural absconders)

1. A person who absconds. [First attested in the late 17th century.]
   • 1696, Considerations upon the Bill for the Relief of Poor Prisoners,^[1]

     […] 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.

   • 1909, O. Henry, “The Guardian of the Accolade” in Roads of Destiny, Doubleday Page, p. 33,^[2]

     What else could it all mean but that Mr. Robert Weymouth was an absconder—was about to fly with the bank’s remaining funds […]

   • 1910, Jack London, “That Spot” in Lost Face, New York: Macmillan, p. 112,^[3]

     Steve and I sneaked immediately, like beaten curs, like cowards, like absconders from justice.

   • 2011, Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger’s Child, Knopf Canada, Part Three, Chapter 1,^[4]

     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.

Translations

one who absconds

• Dutch: drosser n
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French

Pronunciation

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Verb

absconder

1. Obsolete form of abscondre.

Conjugation

Conjugation of absconder (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	absconder
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	abscondant /ap.skɔ̃.dɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		abscondé /ap.skɔ̃.de/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	absconde /ap.skɔ̃d/	abscondes /ap.skɔ̃d/	absconde /ap.skɔ̃d/	abscondons /ap.skɔ̃.dɔ̃/	abscondez /ap.skɔ̃.de/	abscondent /ap.skɔ̃d/
	imperfect	abscondais /ap.skɔ̃.dɛ/	abscondais /ap.skɔ̃.dɛ/	abscondait /ap.skɔ̃.dɛ/	abscondions /ap.skɔ̃.djɔ̃/	abscondiez /ap.skɔ̃.dje/	abscondaient /ap.skɔ̃.dɛ/
	past historic2	abscondai /ap.skɔ̃.de/	abscondas /ap.skɔ̃.da/	absconda /ap.skɔ̃.da/	abscondâmes /ap.skɔ̃.dam/	abscondâtes /ap.skɔ̃.dat/	abscondèrent /ap.skɔ̃.dɛʁ/
	future	absconderai /ap.skɔ̃.dʁe/	absconderas /ap.skɔ̃.dʁa/	abscondera /ap.skɔ̃.dʁa/	absconderons /ap.skɔ̃.dʁɔ̃/	absconderez /ap.skɔ̃.dʁe/	absconderont /ap.skɔ̃.dʁɔ̃/
	conditional	absconderais /ap.skɔ̃.dʁɛ/	absconderais /ap.skɔ̃.dʁɛ/	absconderait /ap.skɔ̃.dʁɛ/	absconderions /ap.skɔ̃.də.ʁjɔ̃/	absconderiez /ap.skɔ̃.də.ʁje/	absconderaient /ap.skɔ̃.dʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	absconde /ap.skɔ̃d/	abscondes /ap.skɔ̃d/	absconde /ap.skɔ̃d/	abscondions /ap.skɔ̃.djɔ̃/	abscondiez /ap.skɔ̃.dje/	abscondent /ap.skɔ̃d/
	imperfect2	abscondasse /ap.skɔ̃.das/	abscondasses /ap.skɔ̃.das/	abscondât /ap.skɔ̃.da/	abscondassions /ap.skɔ̃.da.sjɔ̃/	abscondassiez /ap.skɔ̃.da.sje/	abscondassent /ap.skɔ̃.das/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	absconde /ap.skɔ̃d/	—	abscondons /ap.skɔ̃.dɔ̃/	abscondez /ap.skɔ̃.de/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “absconder”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• abscondre

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin abscondo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /abskonˈdeɾ/ [aβ̞s.kõn̪ˈd̪eɾ]

Verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) to hide

   Synonym: esconder

Related terms

• esconder

Further reading

• Template:R:DRAE 2001