abduct

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I guess that makes sense, I doubt they'd abduct the whole team :P

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Quick take

take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom; "The industrialist's son was kidnapped"

Meaning at a glance

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verb

take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom; "The industrialist's son was kidnapped"

verb

pull away from the body; "this muscle abducts"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for abduct.

verb

take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom; "The industrialist's son was kidnapped"

verb

pull away from the body; "this muscle abducts"

Example sentences

I guess that makes sense, I doubt they'd abduct the whole team :P

They make contact, abduct a couple of humans, some of which return with strange diseases.

They have heard from diseases they cannot fight from other tribes, they have witnessed the abductions.

Using charts to abduct engineers into the world of design is just dirty.

It would probably not be feasible to abduct an invalid from his bed while being shot at.

If they abduct and torture you immediately, the chances of you stalling for x hours is pretty much non-existent.

Fly to Ecquador, kick in the embassy doors and abduct a man seeking asylum?It'd make for one heck of a news day, but I don't think it's that easy.

Didn't they have to lure him away from the UK to be in a position to abduct him in the first place though?So really it depends where you are and what you're willing to do.

>The only argument that I see is that there is no real explanation for the fact that most abductees describe the same experiences down to extreme detailsNot true.

This might not be a significant issue for many, but for us when we were testing, we found that just having LED's in the mask makes it look like aliens are about to abduct you.

Regardless, passwords, even regular banking passwords are not meant to protect you against people that are willing to abduct you and torture you so I've always found this xkcd kind of unfair.

Before the current narrative of sexual examination and hybridization became commonplace, it was just as common for 'aliens' to 'abduct people' and tell them stories of the Aryan supermen from Atlantis.

When the police hear from the grandparents that the child is inaccessible because the Mom got onto a plane and flew home, that's probably true but they don't know for sure - after all that's the sort of story people give out when they abduct children in custody battles during ugly divorces.