verb
- stayed away from school without permission
Usage: past tense of truant; chiefly British
Examples
- He truanted from school to go to the arcade.
- The students truanted during the math test.
- She had never truanted before getting caught up with the wrong crowd.
- They truanted so often that their parents were called in.
- The boy truanted three days in a row before anyone noticed.
- After he truanted, he spent the day at the park.