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abductor

1

[ ab-duhk-ter ]

noun

  1. a person who abducts.


abductor

2

[ ab-duhk-ter ]

noun

  1. any muscle that abducts ( adductor ).

abductor

/ ăb-dŭktər /

  1. A muscle that draws a limb or part of a limb away from the midline of the body.
  2. Compare adductor


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Word History and Origins

Origin of abductor1

First recorded in 1840–50; abduct + -or 2

Origin of abductor2

From New Latin, dating back to 1605–15; abduce, -tor
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Example Sentences

The husband, meanwhile, claims that he found her at a railway station and managed to rescue her from the abductors, and later, they decided to get married.

Richard Ben Cramer explores the abduction of Olympic athlete Kari Swenson and the indefatigable sheriff who hunted her abductor.

Jaycee Dugard, who was held captive for 18 years in a squalid series of tents by her abductor, who fathered her two children.

Her parents tell Evie Salomon how they picture her abductor—if he exists at all.

In the nearly four months since then, her parents have only grown more haunted by the specter of her abductor.

Till then I hadnt had the faintest idea that my abductor was the Gray Phantom.

Your sweetheart's abductor is no other than the Marquis de Villebelle.

He comes to beg my help in discovering the abductor of her he loves.

Was she a true woman or what my fears pictured her—the scheming, unprincipled abductor of Gwendolen Ocumpaugh?

I did not hate him, for I found it, even now, impossible to believe that he was the abductor of my girl.

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