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/æbdˈəktər/ /əbdˈəktər/ Listen

noun

Abductor n.

One who abducts.

(Anat.) A muscle which serves to draw a part out, or form the median line of the body; as, the abductor oculi, which draws the eye outward.

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Etymology of 'Abductor'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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