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abducted
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vb. (en-past of: abduct )
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adj. (of persons) seized and detained unlawfully, often for ransom; "the father restored the kidnapped (or abducted) child to the mother" [syn: kidnapped , kidnaped ]
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Abduct \Ab*duct"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Abducted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Abducting .] [L. abductus, p. p. of abducere. See Abduce .] To take away surreptitiously by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually by violence; to kidnap. To draw away, ...
Usage examples of abducted.
From nothing more than these results, the poll's sponsors conclude that two per cent of all Americans have been abducted, many repeatedly, by beings from other worlds.
The question of whether respondents had been abducted by aliens was never actually put to them.
Why should anyone claim to have been abducted by alien creatures if it never happened?
Their conclusion that millions of Americans have been so abducted is spurious, based on careless experimental design.
Still, at least hundreds of people, perhaps thousands, claiming they have been abducted, have sought out sympathetic therapists or joined abductee support groups.
Soon after, she experienced a terrifying, repetitive nightmare in which she and Barney were abducted and taken aboard the UFO.
This is more than the number who allegedly remember being abducted by aliens, about the same as the number who've reported seeing one or more UFOs, and less than the number who in the last week of Richard Nixon's Presidency, before he resigned to avoid impeachment, thought he was doing a good-to-excellent job as President.
In a study by Alvin Lawson of California State University, Long Beach, eight subjects, pre-screened to eliminate UFO buffs, were hypnotized by a physician and informed that they had been abducted, brought to a spaceship and examined.
In contrast, there are therapists who encourage abductees to tell their stories to mass audiences, and no legal penalties are exacted for falsely claiming you've been abducted by a UFO.
The Canadian psychologist Nicholas Spanos and his colleagues concluded that there are no obvious pathologies in those who report being abducted by UFOs.
This is not a personal criticism of those who say they've been abducted or of those who interrogate them.
If millions of Americans have been abducted, isn't it strange that not one lives in such a home?
What abduction enthusiasts considered the best case was that of Richard Price, who claims that aliens abducted him when he was eight years old and implanted a small artefact in his penis.
It's been driving me crazy to hear some of my friends speak of their memories that imply they have been abducted by aliens .
I for one will be sleeping with my Polaroid from now on, in hopes that the next time I'm abducted I can provide the proof needed.