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absent v. [
remove] go away or leave; "He absented himself"
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absent s. [
lacking, missing, wanting] nonexistent; "the thumb is absent"; "her appetite was lacking"
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absent s. [
absentminded, abstracted, scatty] lost in thought; showing preoccupation; "an absent stare"; "an absentminded professor"; "the scatty glancing quality of a hyperactive but unfocused intelligence"
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