ABDUCT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does abduct mean? 

• ABDUCT (verb)
  The verb ABDUCT has 2 senses:

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

2. pull away from the body

  Familiarity information: ABDUCT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABDUCT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they abduct    ... he / she / it abducts   
Past simple: abducted   
Past participle: abducted   
-ing form: abducting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

abduct; kidnap; nobble; snatch

Context example:

The industrialist's son was kidnapped

Hypernyms (to "abduct" is one way to...):

seize (take or capture by force)

Domain category:

crime; criminal offence; criminal offense; law-breaking ((criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "abduct"):

impress; shanghai (take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

abduction (the criminal act of capturing and carrying away by force a family member; if a man's wife is abducted it is a crime against the family relationship and against the wife)

abductor (someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Pull away from the body

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

this muscle abducts

Hypernyms (to "abduct" is one way to...):

draw; pull (cause to move by pulling)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Antonym:

adduct (draw a limb towards the body)

Derivation:

abduction ((physiology) moving of a body part away from the central axis of the body)

abductor (a muscle that draws a body part away from the median line)

 Context examples 

A muscle attaching to the lateral surface of the orbit that abducts the eye.

(Lateral Rectus Muscle, NCI Thesaurus)

One of the three gluteal muscles on the lateral surface of the pelvic bone that abducts and rotates the thigh located on the left side of the body.

(Left Gluteus Medius, NCI Thesaurus)

When testing for congenital dislocation of the hip, this is the result obtained when the examiner gently abducts the hip while pushing upward on the greater trochanter.

(Ortolani Maneuver, NCI Thesaurus)

A thin muscle attached to the bottom portions of the eye and orbit that primarily rotates the eye laterally but can also elevate and abduct the eye.

(Inferior Oblique Muscle, NCI Thesaurus)

One of the three gluteal muscles on the lateral surface of the pelvic bone that abducts and rotates the thigh.

(Gluteus Medius, NCI Thesaurus)

A muscle in the forearm running from the head of the humerus to the radial side of the wrist that flexes and radially abducts the hand.

(Flexor Carpi Radialis, NCI Thesaurus)

A muscle in the forearm running from the humeral and ulnar heads to the ulnar side of the wrist that flexes and abducts the hand toward the ulna.

(Flexor Carpi Ulnaris, NCI Thesaurus)

These muscles act to abduct the fingers away from the middle finger.

(Dorsal Hand Interosseous Muscle, NCI Thesaurus)