Abduction

Word ABDUCTION
Character 9
Hyphenation ab duc tion
Pronunciations /əbˈdʌk.ʃn̩/

Definitions and meanings of "Abduction"

What do we mean by abduction?

Leading away; a carrying away.

The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; the movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body.

A syllogism or form of argument in which the major premise is evident, but the minor is only probable.

The wrongful, and usually forcible, carrying off of a human being.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Abduction

The word "abduction" in example sentences

The term abduction is also sometimes used to just mean the generation of hypotheses to explain observations or conclusions, but the former definition is more common both in philosophy and computing. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The word abduction brought a blink and a deep swallow. ❋ Chuck Hogan (2004)

There has been an increase in abduction, forced marriage, and forcible conversion by extremists in rural areas. ❋ Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza (2010)

But before long, doubts arise about the couple’s story, and as forensic details unfold, the abduction is exposed as a hoax. ❋ Unknown (2010)

“One of the most psychologically devastating aspects of family abduction is the sudden, unexpected rupture,” Liss Haviv, the executive director of Take Root, an organization composed of formerly abducted children, explained to me recently. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Creature watches young William (who enters at the end of the Fritz-Ninon scene) now tease Fritz and engage him in a game of ball-throwing that concludes with the Creature's abduction from the stage of the young boy, who will die offstage. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And abduction is rare, but assorted “interference” — disturbingly common. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Believers in abduction by aliens like to think jinn are aliens; some of the more confrontational Muslim clerics dismiss claimed apparations of the Virgin Mary as the work of jinn. ❋ JDsg (2006)

A sadistic demand that ends in abduction and death. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Later on, Charles Sanders Peirce and others went further still and admitted also what he sometimes called abduction '-- something like the relationship between a scientific theory and the evidence on which it is based. ❋ 1932- (2000)

In 1961, Barney and Betty Hill, a New Hampshire couple driving home from vacation, experienced what they later claimed under hypnosis was a short-term abduction by extraterrestrials. ❋ By The Associated Press (2011)

It uses a technique called abduction, which is like deduction in reverse. ❋ Richard Cobbett (2010)

Horton - who testified as an expert witness for the European Parliament report mentioned - says the paper conflated the controversial Bush program, which often included torture and long-term abduction into secret CIA-run prisons in foreign countries, and a significantly less nefarious type of rendition, in use since the early 90's, and perhaps even during the Reagan era. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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