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Abduct Moderate

Abduct has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Verb

Definitions
Verb
1

take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom

"The industrialist's son was kidnapped"

2

pull away from the body

"this muscle abducts"

3

To take away by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually with violence or deception; to kidnap.

Related Terms
Antonyms
adduct
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
seize pull
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
shanghai

Origin

The word comes from the Latin abductus, meaning "led away," which is formed from ab ("away") and duco ("to lead"). In physiology, the term was later created as a back-formation from the existing word abduction.

Rhyming Words
duct educt eruct reluct deduct adduct obduct struct reduct induct ecoduct viaduct conduct oviduct traduct product subduct extruct aquaduct gonaduct
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