6 collocations for absent

Meanwhile, Mr. Britt unostentatiously absented his body as well, taking the trolley for an inland village.

But the fishermen made such speed into the haven that they absented his eyes from beholding the issue, and he could procure neither them, nor any other, to put to sea again.

But from the child was never absent the image of his loved one, and at last his love so wrought on his weak frame that he sickened.

My body shakes with weeping as I pray, Thinking on all I love that are not there, So desolately absent far away My Love and Friend, and my own land and home.

V. be absent &c adj.; keep away, keep out of the way; play truant, absent oneself, stay away; keep aloof, hold aloof.

Any freeholder was fined who absented himself thrice from these courts [k].

6 collocations for  absent