Definition of absent

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Absent (v. t.) To take or withdraw (one's self) to such a distance as to prevent intercourse; -- used with the reflexive pronoun.

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Return :: Return (n.) The act of returning (intransitive), or coming back to the same place or condition; as, the return of one long absent; the return of health; the return of the seasons, or of an anniversary..
Discontinuer :: Discontinuer (n.) One who discontinues, or breaks off or away from; an absentee..
Away :: Away (adv.) Absent; gone; at a distance; as, the master is away from home..
Absented :: Absented (imp. & p. p.) of Absen.
Absent :: Absent (v. t.) To withhold from being present.
Distrait :: Distrait (a.) Absent-minded; lost in thought; abstracted.
Absentee :: Absentee (n.) One who absents himself from his country, office, post, or duty; especially, a landholder who lives in another country or district than that where his estate is situated; as, an Irish absentee..
Greeting :: Greeting (n.) Expression of kindness or joy; salutation at meeting; a compliment from one absent.
Curator :: Curator (n.) One appointed to act as guardian of the estate of a person not legally competent to manage it, or of an absentee; a trustee; a guardian..
Allow :: Allow (v. t.) To grant license to; to permit; to consent to; as, to allow a son to be absent..
Musard :: Musard (v. i.) A dreamer; an absent-minded person.
Swordfish :: Swordfish (n.) A very large oceanic fish (Xiphias gladius), the only representative of the family Xiphiidae. It is highly valued as a food fish. The bones of the upper jaw are consolidated, and form a long, rigid, swordlike beak; the dorsal fin is high and without distinct spines; the ventral fins are absent. The adult is destitute of teeth. It becomes sixteen feet or more long..
Absentness :: Absentness (n.) The quality of being absent-minded.
Elvish :: Elvish (a.) Pertaining to elves; implike; mischievous; weird; also, vacant; absent in demeanor. See Elfish..
Muzzy :: Muzzy (a.) Absent-minded; dazed; muddled; stupid.
Absenter :: Absenter (n.) One who absents one's self.
Want :: Want (v. i.) To be absent; to be deficient or lacking; to fail; not to be sufficient; to fall or come short; to lack; -- often used impersonally with of; as, it wants ten minutes of four..
Ratitae :: Ratitae (n. pl.) An order of birds in which the wings are small, rudimentary, or absent, and the breastbone is destitute of a keel. The ostrich, emu, moa, and apteryx are examples..
Absent :: Absent (a.) Not existing; lacking; as, the part was rudimental or absent..
Backbite :: Backbite (v. i.) To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent).
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