- absent (from…) not in a place because of illness, etc.
- She was absent from work for two weeks.
- Local people were conspicuously absent from the meeting.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- remain
- completely
- entirely
- quite
- …
- from
- absent without leave
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- absent (from something) not present in something
- Love was totally absent from his childhood.
- She now played with a passion that had been strangely absent from her previous performance.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- remain
- completely
- entirely
- quite
- …
- from
- absent without leave
- showing that you are not really looking at or thinking about what is happening around you
- an absent expression
Word OriginMiddle English: via Old French from Latin absens, absent- ‘being absent’, present participle of abesse, from ab- ‘from, away’ + esse ‘to be’.
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