abscond

verb6

1. •
   To flee, often secretly; to steal away.

   • The thieves absconded with our property.
2. •
   To hide, conceal, or absent oneself clandestinely, with the intent to avoid legal process

   • 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. — 1942
3. •
   To abandon a hive.

   • [European honey bees] raise large colonies, hoard large quantities of honey, are more gentle than other species and almost never abscond. — 2003
4. •
   To evade, to hide or flee from.

   • The captain absconded his responsibility.
5. •
   To hide, to be in hiding or concealment.

   • the Marmotto, […] which absconds all Winter doth […] live upon its own Fat. — 1691
6. •
   (no longer used) To conceal; to take away.

   • for having applied to the Side of the Head any thin black Body, such as the Brim of a Hat, so as it may abscond the Objects that are upon that Side — 1759