Meaning of abduction | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Leading away; a carrying away.
   countable, uncountable
2. The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; the movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body.
   countable, uncountable
3. A syllogism or form of argument in which the major premise is evident, but the minor is only probable.
   countable, uncountable
4. The wrongful, and usually forcible, carrying off of a human being.
   countable, uncountable
5. Alien abduction.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Abduction is performed by asking the patient to raise the arm at the side as high as they can with the examiner stabilizing the scapula by holding it down.”

“The significance of such a step is that it is not morphologically triggered: it is a step of abduction, and what is required here is a meta-level process of reasoning.”

“the abduction of a child”

“Saturday’s actions – the abduction of [Venezuelan] President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas to face federal drug-trafficking charges in the U.S., and the deadly bombings of military installations and some civilian buildings across the country – had “Trump Corollary” written all over them.”

“But fear of abduction never stopped a good ufologist.”

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