abductee
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8.1
- noun
- /æbˈdʌkˌti/
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- There are many stories about abductees who were taken against their will and later escaped.
Like now the question is, am I an abductee, right?
- Like now the question is, am I an abductee, right?
- One of the things people would ask as an abductee, I probably would as well, is why me?
- Have you ever thought about, like, are there out of all the abductee public abductees or private abductees that you've talked to?
Examples
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Thus, as one abductee puts it, they go "underground."
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One of the most difficult things is for the abductees to look directly at the beings themselves.
Academic text (1993) -
Like now the question is, am I an abductee, right?
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One of the things people would ask as an abductee, I probably would as well, is why me?
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Finally, I want to give the last word to an abductee who spoke at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology conference.
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Usually, abductees are returned to the same place they were originally, but funny things happen.
Academic text (1993) -
I'm an abductee!
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Some abductees have been witnessed by their relatives to be not present, literally missing, during the abduction period.
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What Claire said is characteristic of what other abductees have said to me: "I would relish the idea that I'm insane.
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My team allocated considerable resources into tracking bona fide abductees.
Synonyms
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3.9
Someone others hold to force someone else to do something
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7.6
A person who is taken by force and kept against their will
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word abductee comes from ab- 'away' and a root that means 'to lead', a root you can see in conduct, plus the ending -ee which means 'a person who receives the action', like in employee. So an abductee is someone who has been 'led away' from where they were, often against their will.