[ UK /ɐbdˈʌkt/ ]
[ US /æbˈdəkt/ ]
VERB
  1. pull away from the body
    this muscle abducts
  2. take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom
    The industrialist's son was kidnapped
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How To Use abduct In A Sentence

  • A new law took effect last year that makes it illegal to abduct young girls and force them into marriage.
  • But the government's toadyish diplomacy, which overlooked the key issue affecting its relations with North Korea, led to a delay in resolving the abduction cases and resulted in tragic consequences.
  • In some cases of abduction, the abducting parent is mentally unstable and/or a drug abuser.
  • It isn't her fault some evil person abducted her. The Sun
  • The Catholic commission said Sunday it compiled what it called credible witness reports of "systematic violence in the form of assaults, murders, torture, abductions and wanton destruction of property against innocent civilians whose alleged crime is to have voted wrongly. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • He is a murderer and a child abductor but he doesn't go on the register for that.
  • However, such a shocking thing as violence is hardly hinted at, and the Princess always succeeds, as the Creole lady in _Newton Forster_ said she did with the pirates, in "temporising," while her abductors confine themselves for the most part to the finest "Phébus. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
  • Although he had full access to legal counsel, he was not allowed to reveal details of his abduction to the judges.
  • And might ETs, on occasion, "abduct" CTs as well as humans? Posthuman Blues
  • I have read that stranger abductions are actually on the decline in the past couple of years.
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