abduct – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to abduct
Participle: abducted
Gerund: abducting

Cognates

-

Indicative

Subjunctive

Conditional

Imperative

you	abduct
we	Let's abduct
you	abduct

Indicative

Conditional

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

to take something that does not belong to one

abstract, appropriate, bag, bandit, bone, boost, borrow, burglarize, burgle, cheat, chore, convert, cop, cozen, crib, embezzle, filch, fleece, flog, gaffle, half-inch, heist, jack, kidnap, knock off, kype, kyper, liberate, lift, loot, make off with, mill, misappropriate, moonlight requisition, nick, own, peculate, pickpocket, pilfer, pillage, pinch, pirate, plunder, poach, pocket, prig, purloin, raid, ransack, rape, reave, rip, rip off, rob, run off with, snag, snatch, steal, swindle, swipe, thieve, walk off with

kidnap

shanghai, capture, seize, rape

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. "to kidnap," 1834, altered from abduce "to draw away" by persuasion (1537), from L. abducere "lead away," from ab- "away" + ducere "to lead" (see duke). Abduction is first recorded 1626 in lit. sense of "a leading away;" the illegal activity so called from 1768.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep
4. Proto-Indo-European *-o
5. Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó
6. Proto-Italic *ap
7. Latin abder.
8. Latin ab-
9. Proto-Indo-European *dewk-
10. Proto-Indo-European *déwkti
11. Proto-Italic *doukō
12. Latin dūcō
13. Latin abdūcō
14. Latin abductusder.
15. English abduct
16. From Latin abductus, perfect passive participle of abduco (“to lead away”), from ab (“away”) + duco (“to lead”).
17. * (physiology): Back-formation from abduction.

Verbs referencing "abduct"

Finnish with old forms abduktoida.

Sample Sentences