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The definition of abduction is the act or process of illegally taking away a person by using force or coercion.

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An example of abduction is a criminal driving away with a rich person's child tied up in the back seat.

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See abduction in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

an abducting or being abducted
Law the carrying off of a person by force or fraud; esp., the kidnapping of a woman for marriage, prostitution, etc.
Physiol.
1. an abducting of a part of the body
2. the changed position resulting from this

Origin: LL abductio: see abduct

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