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retreat, withdraw, decamp, desert, abandon, take oneself, take French leave, quit the scene, make a getaway, beat a retreat, beat a hasty retreat, run for it, turn tail, show the heels, show a clean or extra-light pair of heels; leave, depart, exit, Euph. leave without saying good-bye, Brit. SI. bugger off.
2. make off, pull out, absquatulate or absquotilate, give or take leg-bail, SI. bail out, Fig. take the money and run; sneak off or away, creep off or away, steal off or away, slink off or away, slip away, slither away, skulk away, slide off, SI. mooch off, SI. duck off, Brit. SI. mizzle; vanish, disappear, do the disappearing act, Inf. make oneself scarce, Brit. SI. do a moonlight flit; evade, dodge, elude, bilk, give [s.o.] the slip, lose [s.o.], SI. duck and run, SI. dog it, SI. ditch [s.o.], SI. shake [s.o.] off.
absence, 1. nonattendance, nonresidence, nonappearance.
2. unavailability, lack, need, want, deficiency, default; dearth, paucity, scarcity; privation, destitution; emptiness, negation, void, vacuum, vacuity, vacancy.
absent, adj. 1. not present, out, off, away, abroad, elsewhere; nonattendant, nonresident, not at home; lost, astray, flown, missing, AWOL.
2. lacking, wanting, nonexistent, deficient.
3. inattentive, absent-minded, preoccupied, absorbed; unthinking, thoughtless, unconsidering, blank, oblivious, heedless; distracted, lost, listless, unconscious, unaware; woolgathering, musing, dreamy, faraway, removed. - v. 4. remove oneself, retire from, withdraw oneself, stay away from, decamp, abscond; play truant, skip, not show up, fail to appear, cut, ignore; shirk, evade, vacate, slip away.
absentee, n. deserter, truant, fugitive, exile, renegade, runaway; shirker, slacker, skulker, malingerer, quitter, backslider.
absenteeism, n. chronic absence, truancy, cutting, skipping, hooky or playing hooky; dereliction, delinquency, neglect, avoidance, evasion, shirking; desertion, sneaking out, French leave.
absently, adv. inattentively, abstractedly, distractedly; musingly, dreamily, listlessly; forgetfully, thoughtlessly, heedlessly, inadvertently; absent-mindedly, unmindfully, negligently; carelessly, sloppily, indifferently.
absent-minded, adj. 1. musing, meditative, meditating, cogitative, cogitating; contemplative, contemplating, pondering, brooding, mulling over, ruminant, ruminative, ruminating, chewing, chewing one's cud, deliberating, reflective, reflecting; pensive, thoughtful, thinking, cerebrational, bemused, lost in thought, in a brown study, Archaic, museful; daydreaming, dreaming, dreamful, dreamy, stargazing, gazing out the window, in the clouds, in a trance, napping, sleeping, asleep; absent, withdrawn, remote, removed, distant, faraway, away, wandering, SI. not at home, SI. out to lunch, SI. out of it.
2. abstracted, preoccupied, rapt, absorbed, immersed, engrossed, lost in, wrapped up, consumed, concentrating, occupied, busy; distracted, diverted, distrait, inattentive, unattentive, inadvertent, deaf, unheeding, unheedful, heedless; oblivious, unaware, unconscious, unmindful, insensible, blind; forgetful, forgetting, apt to forget, Lethied, amnesic, Chiefly Southern U.S. dis-remembering; scatterbrained, rattlebrained.
absolute, adj. 1. perfect, complete, entire, whole, comprehensive, total, ideal, consummate; full, plenary; uncut, solid, undivided, exhaustive, undiminished; pure, clean, clear, faultless, flawless, unadulterated; uncorrupted, untinged, untainted, unblemished, unmixed, unmingled, unblended, uncombined, undiluted, unalloyed; genuine, unaltered, essential, real; plain, simple, regular, unadorned, stark.
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Vaccine, Meningitis
Discoverer/Inventor : gardon, et al. connaught lab (u.s.a)
Year : 1987 .. More >>
