abduct Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom
    nobble; kidnap; snatch.
    • The industrialist's son was kidnapped
  2. verb pull away from the body
    • this muscle abducts

WordNet

Ab*duct" transitive verb
Etymology
L. abductus, p.p. of abducere. See Abduce.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Abducted present participle & verbal noun Abducting
Definitions
  1. To take away surreptitiously by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually by violence; to kidnap.
  2. To draw away, as a limb or other part, from its ordinary position.

Webster 1913