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abscondees

abscondees is the plural of abscondee.

Meaning of abscondee

Noun

abscondee (plural abscondees)

  1. A person who has absconded.
    • An investigator begins an intensive search for the abscondee.1967 ·, Louise Boggess, Journey to Citizenship, page 51
    Synonyms:
    absconder
  2. (rare) A person who is abandoned by an absconder.
    • '[…] After Norm absconded, I found that a little disconcerting. As if the sonofabitch was still there, staring at me, checking up on me. Are you an absconder, Tom?' 'No, I think I'm technically an abscondee.' 'Ah, well, there we are. We have something in common. Here's to all abscondees.2010, Nicholas Evans, The Brave

Questions about abscondees

What is abscondees the plural of?
Abscondees is the plural of abscondee.

Words near abscondees in the dictionary

  1. absconces
  2. abscond
  3. abscondancy
  4. absconded
  5. abscondee
  6. abscondees
  7. abscondence
  8. abscondences
  9. absconder
  10. absconders
  11. abscondest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: abscondees (page history and authors); abscondee (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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