abduction
pronunciation
How to pronounce abduction in British English:
UK [æb'dʌkʃn]
How to pronounce abduction in American English:
US [æb'dʌkʃn]
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- Noun:
- 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
- (physiology) moving of a body part away from the central axis of the body
Word Origin
- abduction (n.)
- 1620s, "a leading away," from Latin abductionem (nominative abductio), noun of action from past participle stem of abducere "to lead away, take away" (often by force), from ab- "away" (see ab-) + ducere "to lead" (see duke (n.)). The illegal activity so called from 1768; before that the word also was a term in surgery and logic. In the Mercian hymns, Latin abductione is glossed by Old English wiðlaednisse.
Example
- 1. The circumstances of bergdahl 's abduction remain unclear .
- 2. The danger to children from paedophile abduction is very small .
- 3. The united nations released a statement strongly denouncing the abduction and killing .
- 4. When the mexicans called them following the abduction of their ambassador , nobody answered .
- 5. Reports of alien abduction are a relatively new phenomena , with regular accounts emerging only in the 1960s .