Crossword clues for abduct
abduct
- Criminally remove to an undisclosed location
- Carry off sailor over channel
- Kidnap sailor on vessel
- Kidnap a French duke in outskirts of Brest
- Seaman reportedly avoided kidnap
- Illegally take sailor over Channel
- Take (someone) by force
- Take for ransom
- Take aboard a UFO
- Take out of this world
- Take aboard a spaceship
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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, as a limb or other part, from its ordinary position.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To take away by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually with violence or deception; to kidnap. (Early 17th century.)(reference-book last = first = authorlink = coauthors = editor =Thomas, Clayton L. others = title =Taber's Encyclopedic Medical Dictionary origdate = origyear = 1940 origmonth = url = format = accessdate = accessyear = accessmonth = edition = 5th date = year =1993 month = publisher =F. A. Davis Company location =Philadelphia, PA language = id = doi = isbn =0-8036-8313-8 lccn = ol = pages =1 chapter = chapterurl = quote =)
WordNet
Usage examples of "abduct".
At the desk was a Chian somewhat older than the three who had abducted nese m Marissa and Tristan.
My mother had instantly leapt to the conclusion that he had abducted me and was demanding the codicil in exchange for my return, and this is what had brought on the scene that I had interrupted.
In one year, that was the number of children whose custodial parent reported them as abducted by a former spouse or other family member.
Later Spirit learned that Forta had been abducted, but that Hope had managed to exchange places with her, emulating her while she emulated him and escaped.
Over the centuries, the Scarlet Spires had abducted dozens of Mandate Schoolmen, hoping to wrest from them the secrets of the Gnosis, the sorcery of the Ancient North.
He has found their clothes, with yours and mine, which have convinced him at first that someone has killed them or at least abducted them most brutally.
Eurytus seized Hippodame, and the others seized the women that they fancied or those that they were able to abduct, and in no time at all the scene resembled what happens when a city is despoiled.
By sending Rutledge Mann to Basil Tellert, by presenting startling news which had forced the promoter to lose no time in denouncing Jark, The Shadow had made it imperative that Mann be abducted.
It crossed her mind that perhaps Sulle had learned of Alan and had abducted the child himself.
Macurdy came home and found that the Sisterhood had abducted Varia, taking her from Farside as they called our world, to Yuulith.
Kovrov, a campaign without parallel since the Trojan war was waged between the vengeful relatives of an abducted nationalized girl and her persecutors.
Neither was she pleased when they mentioned to her the warning Leofwin had received from Trickle, and she was further unsettled when they told her that the zombified townsmen of Everclear had been abducted by bandits.
Before she could answer, however, I remembered something she had just said and a sudden and terrifying thought occurred to me: Mr Advowson had said that it was Hinxman who had removed the entry from the vestry and I tried now to recall if Sukey had seen him on that distant day when he and Emma tried to abduct me.
Do you think Barbara Mellon would have abducted Michael without letting his mother know?
Forget this folly of abducted visionesses and possessed warlocks, of suspicious aristocrats and moribund noblemen.