as in to kidnap
to carry away (as a person) forcibly or unlawfully
the gangsters planned to abduct the industrialist's young daughter and demand a huge ransom from her family
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Recent Examples of abduct
Carmen Miranda, 37, who was abducted from a car wash at 29th Street and Thomas Road, just blocks from where Goudeau lived, and shot to death in her car on June 29, 2006.
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Miguel Torres, AZCentral.com, 25 Sep. 2025
In addition to the standalone episodic plots, Hotel Costiera has a season-long arc in which Daniel and his crew attempt to track down Augusto’s somewhat rebellious younger daughter Alice (Amanda Campana), who may have been abducted, but may actually just be … someplace else.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2025
He routinely gets beaten or abducted by subjects who resent his coverage.
—Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
But then Usagi is abducted by a mysterious scholar obsessed with the afterlife, and Arisu must return to the Borderland to save her.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Sep. 2025
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Miguel Torres, AZCentral.com, 25 Sep. 2025
In addition to the standalone episodic plots, Hotel Costiera has a season-long arc in which Daniel and his crew attempt to track down Augusto’s somewhat rebellious younger daughter Alice (Amanda Campana), who may have been abducted, but may actually just be … someplace else.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2025
He routinely gets beaten or abducted by subjects who resent his coverage.
—Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
But then Usagi is abducted by a mysterious scholar obsessed with the afterlife, and Arisu must return to the Borderland to save her.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for abduct
kidnap
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But there’s also no one to see if someone kidnaps you, which does happen to a girl at one point in the book.—
Jennifer Wilson,
New Yorker,
28 Sep. 2025
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While the plots are similar— an ex-revolutionary is forced back into action after his daughter is kidnapped by a former nemesis— the film lands as a much more straightforward action movie, following relatively conventional story beats.—
Andrew McGowan,
Variety,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Abduct.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/abduct. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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