Abduct

Definition: Abduct

Abduct

Verb

1. Of people.

2. Pull away from the body, of muscles.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "abduct" was first used: 1834. (references)

Note: Abduct \Ab*duct"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Abducted; present participle verb or noun Abducting.]. (references)

Synonyms: Abduct

Recession

Verb: repel, push from, drive apart, drive from; chase, dispel; retrude; abduce, abduct; send away; repulse.

Stealing

Convey away, carry off, abduct, kidnap, crimp; make off with, walk off with, run off with; run away with; spirit away, seize; (lay violent hands on).

Taking

Take away, carry away, bear away, take off, carry off, bear off; adeem; abstract; hurry off with, run away with; abduct; steal; ravish; seize; pounce upon, spring upon; swoop to, swoop down upon; take by storm, take by assault; snatch, reave.

Crosswords: Abduct

Human Rights

Indonesia

The Government has not taken any significant action deter forces that abduct persons. (references)

India

The security forces continue to abduct and kill suspected terrorists, but they do not accept accountability for these abuses. (references)

Indonesia

In Aceh armed separatists often abduct army members, police personnel, civil servants, and others, although they do not always acknowledge responsibility for these incidents. (references)

Political Economy

Sudan

The militias abduct women and children as remuneration for their services. (references)

Uganda

LRA attacks decreased during the year; however, the LRA continued to kill and abduct civilians, including children. (references)

Worker Rights

Turkey

Under the Penal Code, it is illegal to abduct and detain a woman or child. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Afrikaans

ontvoer. (various references)

Albanian

rrëmbëj. (various references)

Arabic 

‏خطف (carry off, gobble, hijack, kidnap, kidnapping, lift off, nobble, ravish, seizing, snatching, steal, whip). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отклонявам (avert, bend, call off, deflect, detract, deviate, disincline, divagate, divert, fence off, head off, put off, shunt, siphon off, stave off, swerve, throw down, throw off, turn aside, turn off, wave away), отвличам (abstract, call off, carry off, distract, divert, hijack, kidnap, reave, snatch away, steal away, take away, turn off), похитявам (kidnap, outrage, rape, ravish). (various references)

Chinese 

誘拐 , 拐骗 (Abducted, Abducting). (various references)

Czech

unést (bear, kidnap, ravish, run away, snatch, spirit away, swoop). (various references)

Danish

abducere, udadføre. (various references)

Dutch

ontvoeren. (various references)

Esperanto

homrabi. (various references)

Farsi 

ازمرکزبدن دورکردن(طب), ادم دزدیدن , ربودن (Abstract, Bag, Betake, Get, Grab, Hook, Purloin, Ravish, Reave, Rob, Snatch, Steal, Usurp), دورکردن (Dispossess, Distance, Estrange, Oust, Parry, Remove). (various references)

Finnish

siepata (catch, grab, intercept, kidnap, lay hold of, seize, snatch), ryöstää (kidnap, loot, maraud, mug, pillage, plunder, rob, sack). (various references)

French

enlever. (various references)

Frisian

ôfliede (abduce, derive, divert), ôffiere (abduce, divert). (various references)

German

entführen (carry off, elope with, hijack, kidnap, make off with, run off with, skyjack, snatch, to abduct, to kidnap). (various references)

Greek 

απάγω (carry off, kidnap, rape, ravish, whisk). (various references)

Hungarian

elrabol embert. (various references)

Indonesian

mengalap (pick), menculik (kidnap, see: culik), culik (kidnap). (various references)

Italian

rapire (enrapture, hijack, kidnap, ravish, steal). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

拐う (to abduct, to carry off, to kidnap, to run away with), �"�う (to abduct, to carry off, to kidnap, to run away with). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さらう (to abduct, to carry off, to dredge, to kidnap, to practise, to rehearse, to review, to run away with, to sweep away, to wash away). (various references)

Manx

leeideil ersooyl (abduction, lead away, lead off), goaill ersooyl (abduction, take away). (various references)

Norwegian

kidnappe, bortføre. (various references)

Papiamen

sekuestrá. (various references)

Pig Latin

abductay.(various references)

Portuguese

abduzir, sequestre, sequestrar (to sequester, to sequestrate). (various references)

Romanian

rãpi (kidnap, lay open, rape, ravish, Rob, spirit, steal). (various references)

Russian 

похищать (carry off, kidnap, rape, reave, reive). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

oteti (hijack, kidnap, prise, prize, ravish, seize, wrest), odvući (drag off, take away). (various references)

Spanish

raptar (hijack, kidnap, rape, Raven, ravish, reave, reive). (various references)

Swedish

bortföra (deport). (various references)

Turkish

kaçırmak (blow, chill, exude, flush, give off, hijack, kidnap, ladder, let escape, let slip, lose, make off with, Miss, ooze, pass up, put off, rape, ravish, shuffle, slip, snatch, spirit away, spoil, whisk). (various references)

Ukrainian

відтягувати (pull back, weight down), відводити (allot, appoint, apportion, assign, avert, drain, draw away, shunt, take back), видкрадати силою. (various references)

Welsh

dwyn ymaith drwy drais. (various references)

abducere, rapere, rapiere. (various references)

forwgan. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "abduct": abducted, abductee, abductees, abducting, abduction, abductions, abductor, abductores, abductors, abducts. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Abduct" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abdick, aduct, Balducci. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ducat.

-2 letters: abut, baud, daub, daut, duct, tabu, tuba.

-3 letters: act, bad, bat, bud, but, cab, cad, cat, cub, cud, cut, dab, dub, tab, tad, tau, tub, uta.

-4 letters: ab, ad, at, ba, ta, ut.

+1 letter: abducts.

+2 letters: abducent, abducted, abductee, abductor.

+3 letters: abductees, abducting, abduction, abductors, incubated.

+4 letters: abducentes, abductions, abductores, bifurcated, carbureted, lubricated, obfuscated, rubricated, subcordate, subdialect, subtracted.

+5 letters: binucleated, biquadratic, carburetted, counterbade, disturbance, educability, elucubrated, outbalanced, subdialects, thumbtacked, umbilicated, unbracketed.