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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



... lightning the abductor carried the countess into an open chapel and seated her behind the confessional on a wooden bench. By the light of the tapers burning before the saint to whom the chapel was dedicated, they looked at each other for a moment in silence, clasping hands, and amazed at their own audacity. The ...
— Maitre Cornelius • Honore de Balzac

... forgotten for the time, so intense was his interest centered in the fate of his sister. If not dead, Dyke Darrel believed she had met with a far worse fate, and it was this thought that nerved him to think of doing desperate work should the cruel abductor ever come before him. ...
— Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective - Or, The Crime of the Midnight Express • Frank Pinkerton

... struggle, too weak to cry out, her head fell backward upon her abductor's shoulder, and she ...
— Pretty Madcap Dorothy - How She Won a Lover • Laura Jean Libbey



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