Abduct: Definition and part of speech

Abduct

  1. v. t. To draw away, as a limb or other part, from its ordinary position.
  2. v. t. To take away surreptitiously by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually by violence; to kidnap.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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