abduct

verb
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Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they abduct
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he / she / it abducts
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past simple abducted
🔊/æbˈdʌktɪd/
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past participle abducted
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-ing form abducting
🔊/æbˈdʌktɪŋ/
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  1. abduct somebody to take somebody away illegally, especially using force诱拐;劫持;绑架 synonym kidnap
    • He had attempted to abduct the two children.他曾企图拐带这两名儿童。
    Topics Crime and punishmentc2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryAbduct is used with these nouns as the subject:
    • alien
    Abduct is used with these nouns as the object:
    • child
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    Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Latin abduct- ‘led away’, from the verb abducere, from ab- ‘away, from’ + ducere ‘to lead’.