All 12 Uses
abduct
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BoneMan's Daughters
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- She'd met the DA during his investigation of the BoneMan after the killer had abducted a girl from Bethany's high school, Saint Michael's Academy, where Celine served on the PTA board.†
Chpt 2abducted = took someone away against their will
- What did Kahlid, who had been very thoughtful in this abduction, hope to gain by making this particular choice?†
Chpt 5 *abduction = the taking away of someone against their will
- The details of his abduction in Iraq could not play a part in winning them back.†
Chpt 12
- All his preparations at each location, the trailer, the truck, the manner in which he would abduct his next victim.†
Chpt 14
- RYAN ROSE EARLY the morning after his weekly session with Father Hortense, feeling more refreshed than he'd felt since his abduction in Iraq.†
Chpt 17abduction = the taking away of someone against their will
- Between Celine's harrowing experience the night of the kidnapping during which BoneMan had broken her finger and Ryan's experience in the desert, the DA was ready to pin the abduction on him.†
Chpt 18
- Bethany wasn't sure how much time had passed, a day at least, enough time so that the initial terror of her abduction had passed, replaced by a dull anguish, a certainty of the inevitable pain awaiting her.†
Chpt 19
- Ricki had brushed the thoughts aside and focused on the one overriding objective they all had, regardless of Ryan's guilt or innocence in the abduction of his daughter.†
Chpt 21
- Now a nearly frantic urgency consumed him to get the man he'd abducted into whatever hole in the ground that BoneMan had prepared for them.†
Chpt 24abducted = took someone away against their will
- His abduction was coming back into focus, Ryan thought.†
Chpt 24abduction = the taking away of someone against their will
- A bulletin had already been circulated to the networks—the FBI now believed that the BoneMan had forcibly abducted Austin DA Burton Welsh from his home in the Spanish Oaks subdivision, west of Austin.†
Chpt 25abducted = took someone away against their will
- She was the captive of a man who shaved his whole body, applied lotion, and abducted girls so that he could break their bones.†
Chpt 29
Definitions:
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(1)
(abduct) to take someone away against their will
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, abduct can refer to a muscle that pulls away from the body.