Synonyms of abducted

abducted 1 of 2

adjective

as in kidnapped

Related Words

• kidnapped
• trapped
• subjugated
• subdued
• enslaved
• bound
• ensnared
• arrested
• occupied
• indentured
• captured
• imprisoned
• confined
• captive
• incarcerated
• caught
• jailed
• apprehended
• interned

Dissimilar Words

• free
• released
• unrestrained
• unconfined
• liberated
• freed
• delivered
• emancipated
• paroled
• enfranchised

abducted

2 of 2

verb

past tense of abduct

as in captured

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• kidnapped
• captured
• seized
• snatched
• waylaid
• impressed
• made away with
• ran off with
• made off with
• hijacked
• spirited
• stole
• shanghaied
• absconded (with)
• caught
• crimped
• took
• copped

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• rescued
• delivered
• returned
• redeemed
• restored
• ransomed

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of abducted

Adjective

As with the previous hour, which opened with the Russian assassins stalking River and Sid at the bowling alley, this episode picks up at the suspense cliffhanger of these same assassins peeling off with an abducted Sid in their car. — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026

An impact campaign will accompany the film’s theatrical release, with partners including the Ukrainian World Congress (UWC), Bring Kids Back UA (President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s initiative to return abducted children) and War Child International. — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2026

Bethune matched the description of the abducted man, and the car that had been intentionally set on fire matched the one driven by the suspects, deputies say. — Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 6 Oct. 2026

The gang later released six children and seven women following an intervention by community leaders and UNICEF, but dozens remain abducted. — ABC News, 30 Aug. 2026

Agent Mulder, hot on the trail of a group of murderers who are harvesting their victims' organs, breaks into a makeshift laboratory in an attempt to save an abducted woman. — Brett Tingley, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2026

Beyond the official count Ukraine’s Bring Kids Back UA, the official tracker of abducted children, lists over 20,000 possible cases of forcible deportation and transfer of children by Russia. — Thom Reilly, The Conversation, 6 Aug. 2026

There were toddlers among the abducted children, according to the outlet. — Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 17 May 2026

The dual timelines will continue, and the present-day Scarpetta will have a heavy new case, focusing on abducted teenage girls. — Barry Levitt, Time, 12 Mar. 2026

Verb

In 2020, 1-year-old Mateo Mantufar-Barrera was abducted at gunpoint by kidnappers who jumped out of a passing vehicle near his home in Chamblee, a city about 15 miles northeast of downtown Atlanta. — Graham Hurley, CNN Money, 1 Nov. 2026

In response, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele sent more than 2,000 troops to Haiti to help rescue the four technicians, who the Haitian government says were abducted. — Arkansas Online, 30 Oct. 2026

Ravana does not appear, Sita is not abducted, and there is no war in Lanka. — Tamanna Nangia, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026

That episode featured the first cliffhanger in Star Trek history and saw Picard abducted and assimilated by an alien race known as The Borg. — Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2026

Melissa Highsmith was abducted from her Fort Worth home in 1971 and reunited with her family 51 years later. — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Oct. 2026

Sacrifice is a Netflix original movie starring Chris Evans as an actor working on his comeback who gets abducted by an environmental group led by Anya Taylor-Joy. — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 23 Oct. 2026

Haiti’s government said Wednesday evening that the four missing soldiers were abducted, marking its first comments since the attack that occurred Sunday in Croix-des-Bouquets. — ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026

Investigators say he had been abducted, driven to another county, and brutally killed. — Dan Raby, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026