Question

abscond They discovered the next morning that their guest had absconded with most of the silverware during the night. æbˈskɑnd

Accepted Answer

To depart in secret and hide. Wagner's massive four-part opera The Ring of the Nibelung begins with a dwarf absconding with gold which he turns into a magic ring. And in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins absconds from Gollum's caves with the ring he has found, the ring Gollum calls “my precious”; what follows is detailed in the three-volume Lord of the Rings. (Tolkien knew Wagner's opera well.) A young couple might abscond from their parents to get married, but sooner or later they must face those parents again

word	abscond
definition	To depart in secret and hide.
eg_sentence	They discovered the next morning that their guest had absconded with most of the silverware during the night.
explanation	Wagner's massive four-part opera The Ring of the Nibelung begins with a dwarf absconding with gold which he turns into a magic ring. And in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins absconds from Gollum's caves with the ring he has found, the ring Gollum calls “my precious”; what follows is detailed in the three-volume Lord of the Rings. (Tolkien knew Wagner's opera well.) A young couple might abscond from their parents to get married, but sooner or later they must face those parents again
IPA	æbˈskɑnd

Ring Abscond Wagner's Opera R Parents Depart Secret