levanting

Verb

levant (third-person singular simple present levants, present participle levanting, simple past and past participle levanted)

1. To abscond or run away, especially to avoid paying money or debts.
   • In a mighty little time their husbands played them false and, taking whatever they could lay hands upon, levanted and left them in the lurch.1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 16

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