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Sometime I wish the aliens would abduct me and crown me as their leader.
George Noory

Meaning of "abduct" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ABDUCT

From the past participle of Latin abdūcere to lead away.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ABDUCT

abduct  [æbˈdʌkt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ABDUCT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Abduct is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb abduct in English.

WHAT DOES ABDUCT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of abduct in the English dictionary

The definition of abduct in the dictionary is to remove by force or cunning; kidnap.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO ABDUCT

PRESENT

Present
I abduct
you abduct
he/she/it abducts
we abduct
you abduct
they abduct
Present continuous
I am abducting
you are abducting
he/she/it is abducting
we are abducting
you are abducting
they are abducting
Present perfect
I have abducted
you have abducted
he/she/it has abducted
we have abducted
you have abducted
they have abducted
Present perfect continuous
I have been abducting
you have been abducting
he/she/it has been abducting
we have been abducting
you have been abducting
they have been abducting
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I abducted
you abducted
he/she/it abducted
we abducted
you abducted
they abducted
Past continuous
I was abducting
you were abducting
he/she/it was abducting
we were abducting
you were abducting
they were abducting
Past perfect
I had abducted
you had abducted
he/she/it had abducted
we had abducted
you had abducted
they had abducted
Past perfect continuous
I had been abducting
you had been abducting
he/she/it had been abducting
we had been abducting
you had been abducting
they had been abducting
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will abduct
you will abduct
he/she/it will abduct
we will abduct
you will abduct
they will abduct
Future continuous
I will be abducting
you will be abducting
he/she/it will be abducting
we will be abducting
you will be abducting
they will be abducting
Future perfect
I will have abducted
you will have abducted
he/she/it will have abducted
we will have abducted
you will have abducted
they will have abducted
Future perfect continuous
I will have been abducting
you will have been abducting
he/she/it will have been abducting
we will have been abducting
you will have been abducting
they will have been abducting
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would abduct
you would abduct
he/she/it would abduct
we would abduct
you would abduct
they would abduct
Conditional continuous
I would be abducting
you would be abducting
he/she/it would be abducting
we would be abducting
you would be abducting
they would be abducting
Conditional perfect
I would have abduct
you would have abduct
he/she/it would have abduct
we would have abduct
you would have abduct
they would have abduct
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been abducting
you would have been abducting
he/she/it would have been abducting
we would have been abducting
you would have been abducting
they would have been abducting
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you abduct
we let´s abduct
you abduct
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to abduct
Past participle
abducted
Present Participle
abducting
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ABDUCT


adduct
əˈdʌkt
aqueduct
ˈækwɪˌdʌkt
conduct
ˈkɒndʌkt
coproduct
kəʊˈprɒdʌkt
deduct
dɪˈdʌkt
duct
dʌkt
educt
ˈiːdʌkt
induct
ɪnˈdʌkt
misconduct
mɪsˈkɒndʌkt
multiproduct
ˌmʌltɪˈprɒdʌkt
oviduct
ˈɒvɪˌdʌkt
prededuct
ˌpriːdɪˈdʌkt
product
ˈprɒdʌkt
reconduct
ˌriːkənˈdʌkt
reinduct
ˌriːɪnˈdʌkt
subduct
səbˈdʌkt
subproduct
ˈsʌbˌprɒdʌkt
superconduct
ˌsuːpərkənˈdʌkt
viaduct
ˈvaɪəˌdʌkt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ABDUCT

abdicate
abdication
abdicative
abdicator
abdomen
abdominal
abdominal crunch
abdominal thrust
abdominally
abdominals
abdominoplasties
abdominoplasty
abdominous
abduce
abducens nerve
abducent
abducent nerve
abductee
abduction
abductor

WORDS THAT END LIKE ABDUCT

air duct
banking product
bile duct
blood product
by-product
Cartesian product
code of conduct
cross product
disorderly conduct
dot product
end product
finished product
global product
gross domestic product
gross misconduct
primary product
professional misconduct
scalar product
tear duct
unprofessional conduct

Synonyms and antonyms of abduct in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ABDUCT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «abduct» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of abduct

Translation of «abduct» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ABDUCT

Find out the translation of abduct to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of abduct from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «abduct» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

绑架
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

raptar
570 millions of speakers

English

abduct
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अपहरण
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

يَخْطَفُ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

похищать
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

raptar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অপহরণ করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

enlever
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Menculik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

entführen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

誘拐する
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

유괴하다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Abduct
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bắt cóc
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கடத்திச்செல்ல
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अपहरण करणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kaçırmak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

rapire
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

uprowadzić
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

викрадати
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

a răpi
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

απάγω
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ontvoering
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

röva bort
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

bortføre
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of abduct

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ABDUCT»

The term «abduct» is regularly used and occupies the 68.959 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ABDUCT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «abduct» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «abduct» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about abduct

EXAMPLES

2 QUOTES WITH «ABDUCT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word abduct.
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George Noory
Sometime I wish the aliens would abduct me and crown me as their leader.
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Evan Peters
Just thinking about that, if that were to really happen, if an alien were to come down and really abduct you, how terrifying and how earth-shattering would that be? Your whole world is just destroyed. God is destroyed. It's kind of a fascinating thing to think about.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ABDUCT»

Discover the use of abduct in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to abduct and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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How to Abduct a Highland Lord
It's hardly the type of wedding Fiona MacLean dreamed of.
Karen Hawkins, 2007
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Taken in Contempt: When Parents Abduct Their Own Children
Examination of international child abduction by parents or other family members.
Robin Bowles, 2001
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Mafia Wars - Moscow Jobs: Abduct a Candidate's Wife for the ...
This book consists of articles from Wikia or other free sources online.
Source: Wikia, 2012
4
Management of Strabismus and Amblyopia: A Practical Guide
Any attempt to abduct either eye provokes obvious nystagmus. Sometimes the strabismus is variable and the eyes only become markedly esotropic when the child is really trying to look carefully at something. The diagnosis in these children ...
John A. Pratt-Johnson, Geraldine Tillson, 2001
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Wounded Innocents and Fallen Angels: Child Abuse and Child ...
Perpetrators like Otto Nuss abduct children because they are confused or suffering from mental illnesses. Some perpetrators abduct children during the commission of other crimes, like a carjacking. Some, like Coleman and Brown, abduct ...
Gregory K. Moffatt, 2003
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Examination and Diagnosis of Musculoskeletal Disorders: ...
Instruct the patient to abduct the small toe against your resistance as you press with the other hand against the lateral aspect of the small toe to move it into adduction. The dorsal interossei abduct the third and fourth toes. However, the average ...
William H. M. Castro, Joerg Jerosch, 2011
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American jurisprudence 2d
ABDUCTION AND KIDNAPPING —Cont'd Federal statut$—Cont'd ransom money, Abduct § 19, 32 scope, Abduct § 15 sentence and punishment, Abduct § 58, 60 Felony clasification of oflense as, Abduet § 4 murder, I-lomi §72 Force generally ...
Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, Bancroft-Whitney Company, West Group, 1998
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Missing Children: A Psychological Approach to Understanding ...
Not all pedophiles abduct and abuse children. Pedophiles who do abduct children may do so for a short time, or they may try to keep the children indefinitely (Lanning, 1994). David Greenberg and his colleagues (Greenberg, Bradford, and ...
James N. Tedisco, Michele Antoinette Paludi, 1996
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New California Digest
Abduct l, 2 Admissions by defendant. Abduct 9 Age, defense based on ignorance of. Abduct 7; Rape 9 Arrest, abduction under pretext of. Abduct 10 Chastity, showing absence of. Abduct 6, 9 ABDUC'l'ION—Cont'd Childrenabduction generally ...
William Mark McKinney, Bancroft-Whitney Company, 1965
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Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China
The 1679 substatute marked the first appearance of ji jian in the code itself: If evil rascals (e gun) gather in a gang and abduct a son or younger brother of commoner family Wang jia zi di) and use coercion to sodomize him {qiang xing ji jian), ...
Matthew Harvey Sommer, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ABDUCT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term abduct is used in the context of the following news items.
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PUBLIC ALERT: New Trick Kidnappers Use to Abduct Unsuspecting …
Nigeria - In a statement released yesterday, the Joint Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta, Operation Pulo Shield, has alerted the public on the ... «Nigerian Bulletin, Jul 15»
2
Kidnappers abduct three women in Bayelsa, kill one
Bandits have stormed the Enewari community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State and abducted three women. They also ... «DailyPost Nigeria, Jul 15»
3
Women Posing as Nuns Try to Abduct Girls in Philippines
According to a news outlet in the Philippines, girls in the countryside were lured away from their home with the promise of studying in Manila, ... «Aleteia EN, Jul 15»
4
Suspected kidnappers abduct wife of former Bayelsa acting gov
SUSPECTED kidnappers in military uniform yesterday struck again in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State and abducted the 48-year-old wife of the former ... «The Guardian Nigeria, Jul 15»
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Gunmen abduct APC female leader in Nasarawa
A STAUNCH leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC in Nasarawa State, Mrs. Mary Enwongulu has been abducted in her country home ... «The Guardian Nigeria, Jul 15»
6
MLM agents abduct recruiter's mother after she runs away with their …
Some 20 marketing agents stormed to their recruiter's house in Kajang three days ago, after she disappeared for a week with about RM1mil of ... «The Star Online, Jul 15»
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Lawton police searching for man who allegedly tried to abduct
LAWTON, Okla. – Authorities in Lawton are searching for a man after they say he attempted to abduct a teenage girl. On Monday, officers were ... «kfor.com, Jun 15»
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In Bayelsa: Gunmen abduct ex-Governor's wife
Martha Binabo was kidnapped at about 11:30am on Monday, June 29, 2015, in Agbura community, a town on the outskirts of Yenagoa, the ... «Pulse Nigeria, Jun 15»
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Theresa Petto planned to abduct, kill Rachel Drafta, detective says
PORTAGE, MI – In the time leading up to a confrontation last week that turned fatal, Theresa Petto laid out in hand-written notes her plan to ... «MLive.com, Jun 15»
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Man attempts to abduct woman in Warren
A man tried to abduct a woman in Warren by grabbing her around the waist and putting his hand over her mouth. Show Transcript Hide ... «WDIV Detroit, Jun 15»

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