Abduct
verb
To forcefully take someone away, usually by criminal action.
The bandits planned to abduct the prince and demand a ransom.
Often appears as...
- abduct a child
- abduct a woman
verb
To move a part of the body away from the center line of the body or from another body part.
In the exercise, you abduct your arm to the side to work your shoulder muscles.
Often appears as...
- abduct the arm
- abduct the leg
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verb
To forcefully take someone away, usually by criminal action.
The bandits planned to abduct the prince and demand a ransom.
Often appears as...
- abduct a child
- abduct a woman
verb
To move a part of the body away from the center line of the body or from another body part.
In the exercise, you abduct your arm to the side to work your shoulder muscles.
Often appears as...
- abduct the arm
- abduct the leg
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Crime Related
Used in contexts involving illegal actions, primarily associated with kidnapping.
Authorities advised caution after reports of attempts to abduct tourists in the area.
Pro Tip 2/3Perpetrator Intent
Implies a plan or intent to take someone against their will, not accidental.
The plot revealed the villain's desire to abduct the heiress.
Pro Tip 3/3Often Violent
It may involve force or threat, characterizing an aggressive act.
During the robbery, the criminals tried to abduct a hostage.
Pro Tip 1/3Crime Related
Used in contexts involving illegal actions, primarily associated with kidnapping.
Authorities advised caution after reports of attempts to abduct tourists in the area.
Pro Tip 2/3Perpetrator Intent
Implies a plan or intent to take someone against their will, not accidental.
The plot revealed the villain's desire to abduct the heiress.
Pro Tip 3/3Often Violent
It may involve force or threat, characterizing an aggressive act.
During the robbery, the criminals tried to abduct a hostage.
Pro Tip 1/3Crime Related
Used in contexts involving illegal actions, primarily associated with kidnapping.
Authorities advised caution after reports of attempts to abduct tourists in the area.
Pro Tip 2/3Perpetrator Intent
Implies a plan or intent to take someone against their will, not accidental.
The plot revealed the villain's desire to abduct the heiress.
Pro Tip 3/3Often Violent
It may involve force or threat, characterizing an aggressive act.
During the robbery, the criminals tried to abduct a hostage.
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Science can answer moral...
meditating on compassion, and he thinks that helping other human beings is an integral component of human happiness. On the other hand, we have someone like Ted Bundy; Ted Bundy was very fond of abducting and raping and torturing and killing young women. So, we appear to have a genuine difference of opinion
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Deep Sea Shark Stakeout...
and gradually hone in and work out where the bait is. So-- - It disappeared. - It's underneath us. - It's just underneath us. - No, it's disappeared, you guys. It sucked it up. Do you remember how I said that you were gonna do, like, alien abduction stuff? You've alien abducted the shark.
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The Science of Alien...
about well you know an 8% of the public according to one poll is actually being abducted by them hauled out of their bedrooms for experiments their mom all right so you know I mean maybe it improves their social life who's to say I think it's no different than then then
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Why children stay silent...
They said it was to keep my safe, and I believed that. I remember always looking out for that white van that I had been warned about. But like over 90 percent of children who are sexually abused, I wasn't taken off a street corner or abducted from a shopping mall.
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Barat Ali Batoor: My...
It is a tragic story about an appalling tradition. It involves young kids dancing for warlords and powerful men in the society. These boys are often abducted or bought from their poor parents, and they are put to work as sex slaves.
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Can you solve the...
And everytime this happens, the next person in line will switch the parity they expect to see. So that's it, you're free to go. It looks like these aliens will have to go hungry, or find some less logical organisms to abduct.
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Gelada Baboon Sexual...
sex causes a great deal of tension because each male lives alongside other hot-tempered tyrants who constantly threatened to abduct his females this male is still so wound up for teammates
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Time Debt PIPE Linda...
abducted you for me two things help stop the madness first I just started tracking my time so that I could be aware of what was happening thankfully it's easy to talk the minutes it takes
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Why I fight for the...
was to see their children being abducted and turned into young soldiers. My mother dug a trench that soon became our home. But yet, we did not feel protected.
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Vincent Cochetel: I was...
aid worker abducted, hostage executed -- but who were they? Why were they there? What motivated them? How did we become so indifferent to these crimes?
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Science can answer moral...
meditating on compassion, and he thinks that helping other human beings is an integral component of human happiness. On the other hand, we have someone like Ted Bundy; Ted Bundy was very fond of abducting and raping and torturing and killing young women. So, we appear to have a genuine difference of opinion
Video examples
Deep Sea Shark Stakeout...
and gradually hone in and work out where the bait is. So-- - It disappeared. - It's underneath us. - It's just underneath us. - No, it's disappeared, you guys. It sucked it up. Do you remember how I said that you were gonna do, like, alien abduction stuff? You've alien abducted the shark.
Video examples
The Science of Alien...
about well you know an 8% of the public according to one poll is actually being abducted by them hauled out of their bedrooms for experiments their mom all right so you know I mean maybe it improves their social life who's to say I think it's no different than then then
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Why children stay silent...
They said it was to keep my safe, and I believed that. I remember always looking out for that white van that I had been warned about. But like over 90 percent of children who are sexually abused, I wasn't taken off a street corner or abducted from a shopping mall.
Video examples
Barat Ali Batoor: My...
It is a tragic story about an appalling tradition. It involves young kids dancing for warlords and powerful men in the society. These boys are often abducted or bought from their poor parents, and they are put to work as sex slaves.
Video examples
Can you solve the...
And everytime this happens, the next person in line will switch the parity they expect to see. So that's it, you're free to go. It looks like these aliens will have to go hungry, or find some less logical organisms to abduct.
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Gelada Baboon Sexual...
sex causes a great deal of tension because each male lives alongside other hot-tempered tyrants who constantly threatened to abduct his females this male is still so wound up for teammates
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Time Debt PIPE Linda...
abducted you for me two things help stop the madness first I just started tracking my time so that I could be aware of what was happening thankfully it's easy to talk the minutes it takes
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Why I fight for the...
was to see their children being abducted and turned into young soldiers. My mother dug a trench that soon became our home. But yet, we did not feel protected.
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Vincent Cochetel: I was...
aid worker abducted, hostage executed -- but who were they? Why were they there? What motivated them? How did we become so indifferent to these crimes?
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Liya Kebede
Ethiopian Model
When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean plazas, defying the military junta dictatorship and demanding the whereabouts of their abducted children... or the Liberian mothers who faced down civil war armed only with T-shirts and courage.
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Payal Rohatgi
Indian Actress
I fail to understand why the #MeToo campaign in India didn't gain momentum when Malayalam actor Dileep was arrested after an actress was abducted and assaulted or when Telugu actress Sri Reddy was banned for talking about sexual harassment. These instances were more deserving of the #MeToo movement than anything else.
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Hannah Kent
Australian Writer
People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
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Jared Harris
British Actor
People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't seem to have a rationale behind it, and the second you say that Hannibal Lector was abducted as a child and he had to eat his sister or something like that, it becomes immediately mundane. The character becomes mundane.
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Evan Peters
American Actor
Just thinking about that, if that were to really happen, if an alien were to come down and really abduct you, how terrifying and how earth-shattering would that be? Your whole world is just destroyed. God is destroyed. It's kind of a fascinating thing to think about.
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Andrew Sean Greer
American Novelist
To say 'A High Wind in Jamaica' is a novel about children who are abducted by pirates is to make it seem like a children's book. But that's completely wrong; its theme is actually how heartless children are.
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Mamie Gummer
American Actress
L.A. is... I always feel sort of abducted when I'm there, like I've stepped onto another planet where everyone looks the same.
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Ingrid Betancourt
Colombian Politician
At first, I didn't want to accept that I had been abducted. I kept thinking, 'Next week, I'll be freed.
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Elisha Cuthbert
Canadian Actress
Celebrity or no celebrity, I think a lot of females deal with the fear of being abducted.
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George Noory
American Journalist
Sometime I wish the aliens would abduct me and crown me as their leader.
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Liya Kebede
Ethiopian Model
When our mothers are alive and healthy, they do extraordinary things... like the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who marched in Argentinean plazas, defying the military junta dictatorship and demanding the whereabouts of their abducted children... or the Liberian mothers who faced down civil war armed only with T-shirts and courage.
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Payal Rohatgi
Indian Actress
I fail to understand why the #MeToo campaign in India didn't gain momentum when Malayalam actor Dileep was arrested after an actress was abducted and assaulted or when Telugu actress Sri Reddy was banned for talking about sexual harassment. These instances were more deserving of the #MeToo movement than anything else.
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Hannah Kent
Australian Writer
People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
Quote examples
Jared Harris
British Actor
People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't seem to have a rationale behind it, and the second you say that Hannibal Lector was abducted as a child and he had to eat his sister or something like that, it becomes immediately mundane. The character becomes mundane.
Quote examples
Evan Peters
American Actor
Just thinking about that, if that were to really happen, if an alien were to come down and really abduct you, how terrifying and how earth-shattering would that be? Your whole world is just destroyed. God is destroyed. It's kind of a fascinating thing to think about.
Quote examples
Andrew Sean Greer
American Novelist
To say 'A High Wind in Jamaica' is a novel about children who are abducted by pirates is to make it seem like a children's book. But that's completely wrong; its theme is actually how heartless children are.
Quote examples
Mamie Gummer
American Actress
L.A. is... I always feel sort of abducted when I'm there, like I've stepped onto another planet where everyone looks the same.
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Ingrid Betancourt
Colombian Politician
At first, I didn't want to accept that I had been abducted. I kept thinking, 'Next week, I'll be freed.
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Elisha Cuthbert
Canadian Actress
Celebrity or no celebrity, I think a lot of females deal with the fear of being abducted.
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George Noory
American Journalist
Sometime I wish the aliens would abduct me and crown me as their leader.
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