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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of truant.

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Examples

  • A vio­lent, promiscuous, out-of-control teen who hated her parents, truanted to have sex with boys and used threats to make other children do what she wanted.

    Disordered Minds Walters, Minette 2003

  • "Did Mr. and Mrs. Trevelyan know that you and Cill truanted at Grace's house?" she asked.

    Disordered Minds Walters, Minette 2003

  • The girl was known to be wild, and she truanted too often — particularly at night — for a swollen belly to be anything but an unwanted pregnancy.

    Fox Evil Walters, Minette 2002

  • Jill knew of this second family and often hung out in their home when she truanted.

    Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986

  • His backwardness in the university hath set him thus forward; for had he not truanted there, he had not been so hasty a divine.

    Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

  • His outward hopes were blasted, and he returned with concentrated ardour to woo the muse, from whom he had so long truanted.

    Milton Mark Pattison 1848

  • Some 40,871 secondary school pupils truanted each day over the autumn and spring terms - the equivalent of 1.41% of half days lost.

    The Guardian World News Jessica Shepherd 2011

  • There are major differences between a kid on a gap year in Peru, to someone who can't find work but has qualifications, to someone who has disengaged from learning and truanted from age 14.

    Epolitix News 2010

  • Alcohol is also linked to missing school, with 60\% of pupils who had truanted in the last year having drunk alcohol in the last week compared to 17\% of those who had never truanted [2].

    Health News from Medical News Today 2009

  • "I think you and Cill hid out with her when you truanted.

    Disordered Minds Walters, Minette 2003

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