Abscond vs Remain - What's the difference?
abscond | remain |
(intransitive, reflexive, archaic) To hide, to be in hiding or concealment.
* 1691-1735 , (John Ray), The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation [http://books.google.com/books?id=rRI5AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA300&dq=intitle:works+of+creation+inauthor:ray&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mpnNUZHMJ4Pu0gGZo4GICw&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAA#v=snippet&q=absconds&f=false]
(reflexive) To flee, often secretly; to steal away, particularly to avoid arrest or prosecution.
* 1848 , (Thomas Babington Macaulay), , Ch. 13
* 1911 , (Ambrose Bierce), (w, The Devil's Dictionary)
To withdraw from.
* 2006 , Richard Rojcewicz, The Gods And Technology: A Reading Of Heidegger , ISBN 0791482308.
* 2009 , Sonia Brill, Relationships Without Anger , ISBN 144902789X.
(obsolete) To conceal; to take away.
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(label) To evade, to hide or flee from.
* 2006 , Aldo E. Chircop, Olof Lindén, Places of Refuge for Ships , ISBN 900414952X.
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State of remaining; stay.
That which is left; relic; remainder; -- chiefly in the plural.
(plural only) remains : That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body.
The posthumous works or productions, especially literary works of one who is dead.
To stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.
* Bible, (w) vi. 12
* (John Locke)
To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last.
* Bible, (Genesis) xxxviii. 11
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, title= To await; to be left to.
(copulative) To continue in a state of being.
As verbs the difference between abscond and remain
is that abscond is (intransitive|reflexive|archaic) to hide, to be in hiding or concealment while remain is to stay behind while others withdraw; to be left after others have been removed or destroyed; to be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised.As a noun remain is
state of remaining; stay.abscond
English
Verb
(en verb)- the Marmotto , live upon its own Fat.
- ... that very homesickness which, in regular armies, drives so many recruits to abscond at the risk of stripes and of death.
- Spring beckons! All things to the call respond;
The trees are leaving and cashiers abscond .
- Modern technology accompanies the absconding of the original attitude.
- You cannot abscond from the responsibility both you and your partner owe to this event, and that includes dealing with anger issues and any other emotional issues that come with it.
- The captain absconded his responsibility
- If the distress situation is solved succesfully, the anonymous shipowner will reap the commercial benefit, if the situation ends in disaster, the shipowner will hide behind an anonymous post box in a foreign country and will abscond responsibility.
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remain
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Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- Gather up the fragments that remain .
- Thatremains to be proved.
- Remain a widow at thy father's house.
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