abduction
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7.1
- noun
- /æbˈdʌkʃən/
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- Indeed, in four-fifths of parental abduction cases, children are returned within a month of the initial abduction.
- child abduction
- abduction of a woman
- abduction and rape
Mass murders, rapes, abduction of children, genocide.
- Mass murders, rapes, abduction of children, genocide.
- That's when she likes to talk about cancer, child abductions, and the end of days.
- Issuing an insurance policy against abduction by aliens seems a pretty safe bet.
- This was called the Great Orphan Abduction.
- Vampire attacks, troll maraudings, fairy abductions of children didn't fit in neatly on a police report.
- I had a knock on my door and I had knew, first of all, the guy who led this abduction wasn't like a stranger.
- I'm sort of to one side, which is if my kids kidnappers dropped their iPhone during the abduction, I know what I want to happen.
- It was one of the books about alien abduction, Whitley Stryver's book Communion, I think it was about alien abductions years ago.
- How do you get from to to the to having those detailed memories of alien abduction?
- All the all the abduction stuff just gets cut off.
- Department for abductions to, you know, for people to contact them.
- That's the problem in America, the geese abductions and the dog and cat abductions.
- What about so she screamed abduction, but there's apparently phone calls.
- So it seems like Bad Man is about an abduction.
Examples
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Contrary to the dominant narrative, most child abductions are perpetrated by family members.
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Parental abduction is defined as one parent taking a child without permission from the other parent.
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When she goes home two weeks after her arrival, an incident happens, an abduction and a murder of a child.
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Although the law has developed such that parental abduction is now illegal, as described in section III.
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Research has mainly focused on stranger abduction, although parental abduction presents a much more common threat.
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Multiple studies have determined that parental abduction is highly correlated with a history of family violence.
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Law enforcement's failure to intervene in parental abduction cases occurs at both the local and national levels.
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Police officer Kate Logan has just left the RCMP offices where she was answering questions relating to her abduction.
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Most criminal complaints regarding parental abduction result in dismissals or plea bargains.
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The police are investigating the abduction of a child who was taken from a local park.
Synonyms
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3.2
The act of taking control of another person or their land by force
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4.6
To take someone away by force or trick to ask for money
Antonyms
How Violent
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Abduction comes from the parts ab- meaning 'away' and duct from the Latin ducere meaning 'to lead'. A helpful way to remember this sense is to think of someone being 'led away' from their home by force, which is why abduction now means kidnapping.