From Latin abductus, perfect passive participle of abduco (“to lead away”), from ab (“away”) + duco (“to lead”).^[1]

• (physiology): Back-formation from abduction.^[2]

• (US, UK) IPA^(key): /æbˈdʌkt/, /əbˈdʌkt/

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• Rhymes: -ʌkt

abduct (third-person singular simple present abducts, present participle abducting, simple past and past participle abducted)

1. (transitive) To take away by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually with violence or deception; to kidnap. [Early 17^th century.]^[3]

   to abduct children

   I was abducted by aliens.

   • 1904, Jules Verne, chapter 16, in The Master of the World‎^[1], archived from the original on 23 February 2012:

     That same night he had by force abducted 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) To draw away, as a limb or other part, from the median axis of the body. [Early 17^th century.]

• carry off
• drag away
• kidnap
• run away with
• seize
• spirit away
• stretch
• take away

• adduct
• reinstate
• restore