abduct
verb/æbˈdʌkt/
/æbˈdʌkt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they abduct | /æbˈdʌkt/ /æbˈdʌkt/ |
| he / she / it abducts | /æbˈdʌkts/ /æbˈdʌkts/ |
| past simple abducted | /æbˈdʌktɪd/ /æbˈdʌktɪd/ |
| past participle abducted | /æbˈdʌktɪd/ /æbˈdʌktɪd/ |
| -ing form abducting | /æbˈdʌktɪŋ/ /æbˈdʌktɪŋ/ |
- abduct somebody to take somebody away illegally, especially using force synonym kidnap
- He had attempted to abduct the two children.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryAbduct is used with these nouns as the subject:- alien
- child
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Latin abduct- ‘led away’, from the verb abducere, from ab- ‘away, from’ + ducere ‘to lead’.Want to learn more?
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