absent (oneself) from

To leave a place, often to avoid something. If my ex-boyfriend does come, I'm going to absent myself from the party.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Margarita	mahr-gah-REE-tah (Spanish, Russian)	Spanish, Russian, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Late Roman
Suri	-	Yiddish
Iob	-	Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Bagrat	-	Armenian, Georgian (Rare)
Yaromir	-	Medieval Slavic
Pauliina	POW-lee:-nah	Finnish