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FromLatinabductus, perfect passive participle ofabduco(to lead away), fromab(away) +duco(to lead).[1]

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abduct (third-person singular simple presentabducts,present participleabducting,simple past and past participleabducted)

  1. (transitive) Totake away by force; tocarry away (a human being)wrongfully and usually withviolence or deception; tokidnap.[Early 17th century.][3]
    toabduct children
    I wasabducted by aliens.
    • 1904, Jules Verne, chapter 16, inThe Master of the World[1], archived fromthe original on23 February 2012:
      That same night he had by forceabducted the president and the secretary of the club, and had taken them, much against their will upon a voyage in the wonderful air-ship, the “Albatross,” which he had constructed.
  2. (transitive, anatomy) Todraw away, as a limb or other part, from themedianaxis of the body.[Early 17th century.]

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to take away
to draw away from its ordinary position

References

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  1. ^Elliott K. Dobbie, C. William Dunmore, Robert K. Barnhart, et al. (editors),Chambers Dictionary of Etymology (Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2004 [1998],→ISBN), page 2
  2. ^Philip Babcock Gove (editor),Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 [1909],→ISBN), page 3
  3. ^Thomas, Clayton L., editor (1940),Taber's Encyclopedic Medical Dictionary, 5th edition, Philadelphia, PA: F. A. Davis Company, published1993,→ISBN, page 1
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