Synonyms for abduction

Grammar : Noun

Spell : ab-duhk-shuh n

Phonetic Transcription : æbˈdʌk ʃən

Définition of abduction

Origin : 1620s, "a leading away," from Latin abductionem (nominative abductio), noun of action from past participle stem of abducere "to lead away, take away" (often by force), from ab- "away" (see ab-) + ducere "to lead" (see duke (n.)). The illegal activity so called from 1768; before that the word also was a term in surgery and logic. In the Mercian hymns, Latin abductione is glossed by Old English wiðlaednisse.

noun taking away by force

Example sentences :

It was more like abduction complicated with assault and battery.
Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson

And were you a party to the abduction of this innocent creature?
Extract from : « Ridgeway » by Scian Dubh

No Venusian had ever been in those rooms before the abduction.
Extract from : « The Bluff of the Hawk » by Anthony Gilmore

It should be the same in cases of abduction of female minors.
Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel

Go back to school, Sir John, to learn that abduction is not piracy.
Extract from : « The Sea-Hawk » by Raphael Sabatini

Have you heard nothing of the abduction of the only son of the Duke of Holdernesse?
Extract from : « The Return of Sherlock Holmes » by Arthur Conan Doyle

At the door of the New Inns, Mr. Spencer was laying forth a theory of abduction.
Extract from : « Gilian The Dreamer » by Neil Munro

It was I who planned your abduction and got him to execute it.
Extract from : « The Winged Men of Orcon » by David R. Sparks

All doubt was removed as to the abduction of Fred Greenwood.
Extract from : « Two Boys in Wyoming » by Edward S. Ellis

The abduction of Miss Cresswell is merely a means to an end.
Extract from : « The Green Rust » by Edgar Wallace

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