abscond

To flee, often secretly; to steal away.

The thieves absconded with our property.

[…] that very homesickness which, in regular armies, drives so many recruits to abscond at the risk of stripes and of death.

To flee, often secretly; to steal away.

I've often speculated why you don't return to America. Did you abscond with the church funds? Run off with a senator's wife? I like to think you killed a man. It's the Romantic in me.

Andy did break his bargain, lurked in the neighborhood a few days, and then, being pursued by the sheriff, absconded to parts unknown.

To flee, often secretly; to steal away.

[European honey bees] raise large colonies, hoard large quantities of honey, are more gentle than other species and almost never abscond.

To hide, to be in hiding or concealment.

the Marmotto, […] which absconds all Winter doth […] live upon its own Fat.

To evade, to hide or flee from.

The captain absconded his responsibility.

If the distress situation is solved successfully, the anonymous shipowner will reap the commercial benefit, if the situation ends in disaster, the shipowner will hide behind an anonymous post box in a foreign country and will abscond responsibility.