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Abduct

  1. verb

    take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom

    The industrialist's son was kidnapped

    Similar: kidnap, nobble, snatch

  2. verb

    pull away from the body

    this muscle abducts

Word family

abducted · abducting

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Word parts

duc · ab-