0 present participle of abduct
1 to force someone to go somewhere with you, often using threats or violence:
The company director was abducted from his car by terrorists.
2 to move a part of the body away from the central part of the body or away from another body part:
Breathy voice is implemented primarily through abducting the vocal folds via the posterior cricoarytenoid muscles.
The abducting posse (qiangqin dui), comprising around seventeen or eighteen men, was a formidable force that made resistance difficult.
It also points to the public nature of the abducting 'ceremony'.
The rebels on the other hand had few problems in replenishing and expanding their military stock by abducting young men in the territories they overran.
The abducting men carried cudgels hidden in their clothes but took them out only if necessary.
The widow was confronted by an abducting party with a sedan chair ready to take her away.
In one experiment, we gave participants a choice between abducting or adducting their hand in picking up the bar.
In the old days one of the favourite local hobbies of the lads of the village was abducting wealthy heiresses.
