What's the difference between abscond and escape?

Abscond


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To hide, withdraw, or be concealed.
  • (v. i.) To depart clandestinely; to steal off and secrete one's self; -- used especially of persons who withdraw to avoid a legal process; as, an absconding debtor.
  • (v. t.) To hide; to conceal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Guzmán was sent to Altiplano high-security prison, 56 miles outside Mexico City, but in July 2015, he absconded again, squeezing through a hole in his shower floor then fleeing on a modified motorbike through a mile-long tunnel fitted with lights and a ventilation system.
  • (2) Eleanor Hawkins' father relieved after Malaysian court frees tourist Read more The judge, Dean Wayne Daly, said: “This court accepted the plea of guilty as mitigation.” He also noted the remorse of the tourists, and accepted that although Hawkins was arrested at an airport “there was nothing to show Eleanor was absconding the law”.
  • (3) It says the very nature of the orders carries an inherent risk that the terror suspect will abscond, but that such incidents should not be allowed to undermine the principle that such restrictions should be individually tailored to each suspect.
  • (4) During prime minister’s questions, Cameron said: “We’re making progress, the buck does stop with me, but I wouldn’t mind a bit of cross-party support for the actions we need to take.” The NAO report, released Monday, revealed that one in six foreign offenders living in the community had absconded.
  • (5) I felt so alone.” But if Marina left, under the UAE’s kafala system, she would become an absconding worker.
  • (6) Mazzaro has been on the run for three months and the San Lorenzo captain is suspected of keeping in touch with him throughout that time and helping him abscond.
  • (7) "While the relocation power was used in control orders nobody absconded and the courts consistently upheld them as proportionate and lawful.
  • (8) It was triggered by a man who absconded from quarantine in Freetown, in order to visit his mother at the end of Ramadan.
  • (9) Polanski absconded before the sentencing, however, and has lived in France ever since.
  • (10) In the aftermath of his disappearance, speculation was rife that Xiros, the son of a fundamentalist Orthodox priest, had decided to abscond because he had fallen in love with a woman he met on a previous release from prison.
  • (11) The Guardian comments that people will be re-detained because of the risk of absconding.
  • (12) Judge Alistair McCreath said: "When a defendant makes a considered decision to abscond as you did he or she has shown a contemptuous disregard for that important obligation and that in itself matters."
  • (13) In the course of treatment three absconded and one died from acute pneumonia with respiratory and heart failure.
  • (14) The judge had concluded that because of the "serious" nature of the allegations against Assange, his "comparatively weak community ties" in the UK, and the fact it was believed he had the financial means and the ability to abscond, there was a substantial risk he would fail to surrender to the courts.
  • (15) It is they, overwhelmingly, who absconded to the yes camp; their elders who remained firmly no.
  • (16) Technically, if they absconded [without] the proper process of authorisation in leaving the States, does the US recognise that they’re here?
  • (17) Despite the implicit concession, the immigration minister continued to contend it was Labor’s fault for depriving the customs system of resources, and for not adjusting the security screening settings – even though Sharrouf absconded in December 2013, when the Coalition was in government.
  • (18) The judge, Howard Riddle, said Rancadore should be allowed to return home on police bail on the condition that he lives and sleeps at his address in Uxbridge, reports to the local police station twice daily, wears an electronic tag and puts up £50,000 security in case he absconds.
  • (19) "The home secretary also needs to provide information about the decisions made over Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed's Tpim [terrorism prevention and investigation measures order], how he was able to abscond and what the risks to the public are."
  • (20) The number of children absconding from a Salvation Army home for boys in Queensland reached unprecedented levels at a time a child prostitution ring was believed to be operating in the area, an inquiry into child sexual abuse has been told.

Escape


Definition:

  • (v.) To flee from and avoid; to be saved or exempt from; to shun; to obtain security from; as, to escape danger.
  • (v.) To avoid the notice of; to pass unobserved by; to evade; as, the fact escaped our attention.
  • (v. i.) To flee, and become secure from danger; -- often followed by from or out of.
  • (v. i.) To get clear from danger or evil of any form; to be passed without harm.
  • (v. i.) To get free from that which confines or holds; -- used of persons or things; as, to escape from prison, from arrest, or from slavery; gas escapes from the pipes; electricity escapes from its conductors.
  • (n.) The act of fleeing from danger, of evading harm, or of avoiding notice; deliverance from injury or any evil; flight; as, an escape in battle; a narrow escape; also, the means of escape; as, a fire escape.
  • (n.) That which escapes attention or restraint; a mistake; an oversight; also, transgression.
  • (n.) A sally.
  • (n.) The unlawful permission, by a jailer or other custodian, of a prisoner's departure from custody.
  • (n.) An apophyge.
  • (n.) Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid.
  • (n.) Leakage or loss of currents from the conducting wires, caused by defective insulation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cancer of the mouth, pharynx and esophagus has decreased in all Japanese migrants, but the decrease is much greater among Okinawan migrants, suggesting they have escaped exposure to risk factors peculiar to the Okinawan environment.
  • (2) Like many families, we’ve had to move to escape the fighting.
  • (3) At follow-up, the initial presence of signs of repression was significantly more common in such initially nonregressive patients as had escaped a later psychotic breakdown.
  • (4) The proliferation of this cell type may represent an escape from the senescence pathway and progression to immortal tumor cells.
  • (5) The presence of the positive-off diagonal of the second-order kernel of respiratory control of heart rate is an indication of an escape-like phenomenon in the system.
  • (6) If you’ve escaped the impact of cuts so far , consider yourself lucky, but don’t think that you won’t be affected after the next tranche hits.
  • (7) The plan was to provide those survivors with escape routes while also giving law enforcement an entry point.
  • (8) He said: “Almost daily we hear from parents desperate to escape the single cramped room of a B&B or hostel that they find themselves struggling to raise their children in.
  • (9) Only two of the 31 commandos escaped; the rest were tracked down and killed.
  • (10) It is deeply moving hearing him talk now – as if from the grave – about a Christmas Day when he felt so frustrated and cut-off from his family that he had to go into the office to escape.
  • (11) Since chromatin particles containing DNA the size of 125 kbp can electroelute, we conclude that the polymerizing complex is attached to a nucleoskeleton which is too large to escape.
  • (12) If such a system were rolled out nationally, central government could escape political pressure to ringfence NHS funding.
  • (13) New insights into the biochemical and cell-biological alterations occurring in articular cartilage during the early phase of osteoarthrosis (OA) have been gained in the past decade by analysing experimentally induced osteoarthrosis in animals, mostly dogs and rabbits, while early phases of OA in humans so far have escaped diagnostic evaluation.
  • (14) After 2 weeks of chronic exposure to 75 mM EtOH, crayfish showed behavioral tolerance as measured by a decrease in righting time and an increase in tail-flip escape behavior to control levels.
  • (15) The researchers' own knowledge of street language and drug behavior has enabled them to capture information that would escape most observers and even some participants.
  • (16) Animals continued to display escape responses after removal of eyestalks and antennae.
  • (17) Intracerebral injection of the GABAA agonists muscimol (1 nmol), isoguvacine (1 nmol) or THIP (1, 2 and 4 nmol) in rats with chemitrodes implanted in the dorsal midbrain central grey raised the threshold electrical current for inducing escape behaviour.
  • (18) Rats were tested on either escape or avoidance learning at 80 days of age after chemical sympathectomy at birth or 40 or 80 days of age.
  • (19) The fraction of ligands that initially escaped into the solvent decreased when the temperature was lowered, and the Arrhenius plots for the rebinding rate coefficients were found to deviate significantly from linearity.
  • (20) When Hayley Cropper swallows poison on Coronation Street on Monday night, taking her own life to escape inoperable pancreatic cancer, with her beloved husband, Roy, in pieces at her bedside, it will be the end of a character who, thanks to Hesmondhalgh's performance, has captivated and challenged British TV viewers for 16 years.