Definitions for abduction

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abduction ab·duc·tion

Spelling: [ab-duhk-shuh n]

IPA: /æbˈdʌk ʃən/

Abduction is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 454 anagrams from letters in abduction (abcdinotu).

Definitions for abduction

noun

1. act of abducting.
2. the state of being abducted.
3. Law. the illegal carrying or enticing away of a person, especially by interfering with a relationship, as the taking of a child from its parent.
4. a syllogism whose major premise is certain but whose minor premise is probable.

Origin of abduction

First recorded in 1620-30; abduct + -ion

Examples for abduction

It was more like abduction complicated with assault and battery.

Did he denounce the involvement of organized crime in the abduction and disappearance of 43 students in the nearby city of Iguala?

Blackouts on the abduction of reporters were routinely called for during the Iraq war.

Go back to school, Sir John, to learn that abduction is not piracy.

Now, their love story faces an even bigger threat—his abduction by the Nusra Front.

No Venusian had ever been in those rooms before the abduction.

It should be the same in cases of abduction of female minors.

But people who are out there and collecting on this believe the [Foley] abduction and the [Islam] trial are connected.

And were you a party to the abduction of this innocent creature?

A few Syrian activists tweeted about his abduction last August, but online nudges got most of those early tweets taken down.