Word.ws English Dictionary

abscondment

abscondment noun: an act of absconding or escaping.

Noun

abscondment (countable and uncountable, plural abscondments)

  1. An act of absconding or escaping
    • Many additional abscondments took place when slaves were sent into the bush […2002, Joan R Mars, Deadly force, colonialism, and the rule of law: police violence in Guyana, page 67

Synonyms of abscondment

Forms of abscondment

pluralabscondments

Origin of abscondment

From abscond + -ment.

Questions about abscondment

What does abscondment mean?
Abscondment means an act of absconding or escaping.
What part of speech is abscondment?
Abscondment is a noun.
What is the plural of abscondment?
The plural of abscondment is abscondments.

Words near abscondment in the dictionary

  1. absconders
  2. abscondest
  3. abscondeth
  4. absconding
  5. abscondings
  6. abscondment
  7. abscondments
  8. absconds
  9. absconsa
  10. absconsio
  11. absconsion

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: abscondment (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “abscondment.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/abscondment. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.