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UK
/ɐbdˈʌkʃən/
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[ US /æbˈdəkʃən, əbˈdəkʃən/ ]
[ US /æbˈdəkʃən, əbˈdəkʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the criminal act of capturing and carrying away by force a family member; if a man's wife is abducted it is a crime against the family relationship and against the wife
- (physiology) moving of a body part away from the central axis of the body
How To Use abduction In A Sentence
- 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.
- 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
- Although he had full access to legal counsel, he was not allowed to reveal details of his abduction to the judges.
- I have read that stranger abductions are actually on the decline in the past couple of years.
- Towler was serving 12 years to life for rape, felonious assault and kidnapping for an abduction on May 24, 1981.
- Over the course of the seven years that follow, Dana Scully risks her life investigating alien abduction cases, murders committed by genetic mutants like a man who eats livers and can stretch his body in improbable ways or a boy who is able to summon lightning or a giant flukeworm which has evolved to have a humanoid appearance and serial killers, some of whom may be incarnations of the devil. Epinions Recent Content for Home
- Adduction is a more extensive movement than abduction because abduction is limited by the lateral side of the radius.
- They also told of how their son had been deeply affected by the abduction.
- Sectarian tensions had already been running high, and the abductions threaten to provoke armed conflict.