1. To go away hastily and secretly; to run away and hide; especially, in order to escape from the law: "Last night several prisoners absconded from the prison camp."

"The goldsmith was absconding with all the gold that belonged to the customers."

2. To run away secretly; especially, in order to avoid police arrest or prosecution by the law: "Yesterday afternoon, the thief was seen absconding with the neighbor's jewels."
3. Etymology: from Middle French abscondre and directly from Latin abscondere, "to hide, to conceal, to put out of sight"; from ab(s)-, "away" + condere, "to put together, to store", from com-, "together" + dere, "to put".