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Abductor   /æbdˈəktər/  /əbdˈəktər/   Listen
Abductor

noun
1.
Someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom).  Synonyms: kidnaper, kidnapper, snatcher.
2.
A muscle that draws a body part away from the median line.  Synonym: abductor muscle.



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"Abductor" Quotes from Famous Books



... master Cyaxares, but his Rival (the word has immense importance in these romances, and is always honoured with a capital there), and learns that the escaping galley carried with it his beloved Mandane, daughter of Cyaxares, of whom he is in quest, and who has been abducted from her abductor and lover by another, ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 - From the Beginning to 1800 • George Saintsbury

... diversity of opinion, in Fiddletown. "The Dutch Flat Intelligencer" openly alluded to the "forcible abduction" of the child with the same freedom, and it is to be feared the same prejudice, with which it had criticised the abductor's poetry. All of Mrs. Tretherick's own sex, and perhaps a few of the opposite sex, whose distinctive quality was not, however, very strongly indicated, fully coincided in the views of "The Intelligencer." The majority, however, evaded the moral issue: that Mrs. Tretherick had shaken ...
— Tales of the Argonauts • Bret Harte

... were of no avail to detain the horrid abductor. Nor yet the boy's strength, exerted to its utmost. His strength alone; for Murtagh was not yet up. Henry seized the gorilla's leg, and clung to it as long as ever he could. He was dragged several feet up the trunk; but a kick from the gorilla shook him off, and he fell, stunned and almost ...
— The Castaways • Captain Mayne Reid

... another week it would drop beneath the plant it grew on and, not being cared for by a gardener, would be smothered or hoed up. In a nice little seed-bed all to itself it can unfold all manner of pleasure for its abductor. ...
— The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 - The Independent Health Magazine • Various

... him who brings me the abductor, or the name of any one engaged in the crime, with proof ...
— The Prince of India - Or - Why Constantinople Fell - Volume 2 • Lew. Wallace

... gentle weight. Another form followed the first, pausing in the light to look toward their doorway. The abductor was doubtless remembering the instructions to chloroform the Countess. Then came the odor of chloroform. Oh, if Anguish ...
— Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon



Words linked to "Abductor" :   skeletal muscle, outlaw, crimp, criminal, striated muscle, captor, felon, crimper, seizer, shanghaier, malefactor, abduct, capturer, crook



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