abduction
abduction
noun
[mass noun]
noun
[mass noun]
- the action of forcibly taking someone away against their will
诱拐，劫持，绑架
they organized the abduction of Mr Cordes on his way to the airport.
他们组织了在科德斯先生去机场的路上将他劫持的行动。
[count noun]abductions by armed men in plain clothes.
穿便服的武装分子采取的劫持行动。
■(in legal use) the illegal removal of a child from its parents or guardians
（法律用语）诱拐儿童 - (Physiology)the movement of a limb or other part away from the midline of the body, or from another part
(生理)（肢体或其他部位的）外展。 adduction 的反义词(见 adduct)
- early 17th cent.: from late Latin abductio(n-), from the verb abducere (see abduct)
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