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Abducting   /æbdˈəktɪŋ/  /əbdˈəktɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Abduct  v. t.  (past & past part. abducted; pres. part. abducting)  
1.
To take away surreptitiously by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually by violence; to kidnap.
2.
To draw away, as a limb or other part, from its ordinary position.



adjective
abducting  adj.  
1.
(Physiol.) Drawing away from the midline of the body or from an adjacent part; used especially of muscles. Antonym: adducent.
Synonyms: abducent






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"Abducting" Quotes from Famous Books



... could be. I suddenly realized how ready I was—how ready!—to have her back. I rebelled fiercely against John's decision that we must not take her with us on our return to the frontier; privately, I resolved to dispute it, and, if necessary, I saw myself abducting the child—my own child. My days and nights as the ship crept on were full of a long ache to possess her; the defrauded tenderness of the last four years rose up in me and sometimes caught at my throat. I could think and talk and dream of nothing else. John ...
— The Pool in the Desert • Sara Jeannette Duncan

... This bestial creature is in the act of abducting a beautiful woman. She has almost ...
— Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts • Juliet James



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