Did aliens really abduct Tom?
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Abduct
Synonyms for "abduct" (58 found)
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Related words (29)
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1 entriesSynonyms
3 entriesRelated terms
5 entriesderived
3 entrieshas context
1 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
13 entriesTranslations
89 translations across 44 languages.
Afrikaans
3 entries- hi'jack verb (to take away)
- kid'nap verb (to take away)
- ontvoer verb (to take away)
Arabic
2 entries- يخطف verb (to take away)
- يَخْطِفّ verb (to take away)
Belarusian
2 entries- выкрадаць verb (to take away)
- выкрасці verb (to take away)
Bulgarian
2 entries- отвличам verb (to take away)
- похищавам verb (to take away)
Catalan
2 entries- abduir verb (to draw away from its ordinary position)
- raptar verb (to take away)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 誘拐 /诱拐 verb (to take away)
Cornish
2 entries- dengibya verb (to take away)
- denladra verb (to take away)
Czech
1 entries- unést verb (to take away)
Danish
2 entries- bortføre verb (to take away)
- kidnappe verb (to take away)
Dutch
3 entries- abduceren verb (to draw away from its ordinary position)
- kidnappen verb (to take away)
- ontvoeren verb (to take away)
Esperanto
1 entries- forrabi verb (to take away)
Finnish
3 entries- abduktoida verb (to take away)
- ryöstää verb (to take away)
- siepata verb (to take away)
French
2 entries- enlever verb (to take away)
- ravir verb (to take away)
German
3 entries- abspreizen verb (to draw away from its ordinary position)
- entführen verb (to take away)
- wegziehen verb (to draw away from its ordinary position)
Greek
1 entries- απάγω verb (to take away)
Hungarian
2 entries- elmozdít verb (to draw away from its ordinary position)
- elrabol verb (to take away)
Icelandic
1 entries- ræna verb (to take away)
Ido
3 entries- abduktar verb (to take away)
- abduktar verb (to draw away from its ordinary position)
- raptar verb (to take away)
Indonesian
1 entries- menculik verb (to take away)
Irish
1 entries- fuadaigh verb (to take away)
Italian
4 entries- abdurre verb (to draw away from its ordinary position)
- rapire verb (to take away)
- sequestrare verb (to take away)
- sottrarre verb (to take away)
Japanese
1 entries- 誘拐する verb (to take away)
Khiamniungan Naga
1 entries- thōhlǖkhúa verb (to take away)
Korean
2 entries- 납치하다 verb (to take away)
- 유괴하다 verb (to take away)
Lakota
3 entries- wiéyaku verb (to take away)
- wiínaȟmA verb (to take away)
- wiíyanažičA verb (to take away)
Latin
1 entries- raptō verb (to take away)
Lithuanian
1 entries- pagrobti verb (to take away)
Macedonian
1 entries- одветува verb (to take away)
Malay
1 entries- culik verb (to take away)
Māori
3 entries- kāhaki verb (to take away)
- kāwhaki verb (to take away)
- mautāhae verb (to take away)
Norman
1 entries- enlever verb (to take away)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- abdusere verb (to draw away from its ordinary position)
- bortføre verb (to take away)
- kidnappe verb (to take away)
Old English
1 entries- forstelan verb (to take away)
Polish
2 entries- uprowadzać verb (to take away)
- uprowadzić verb (to take away)
Portuguese
4 entries- abduzir verb (to take away)
- abduzir verb (to draw away from its ordinary position)
- raptar verb (to take away)
- sequestrar verb (to take away)
Romanian
2 entries- abduce verb (to draw away from its ordinary position)
- răpi verb (to take away)
Russian
4 entries- абду́кция verb (to draw away from its ordinary position)
- отведе́ние verb (to draw away from its ordinary position)
- похи́тить verb (to take away)
- похища́ть verb (to take away)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- oteti verb (to take away)
- отети verb (to take away)
Spanish
4 entries- abducir verb (to take away)
- abducir verb (to draw away from its ordinary position)
- raptar verb (to take away)
- secuestrar verb (to take away)
Tagalog
1 entries- dukot verb (to take away)
Tamil
1 entries- கடத்து verb (to take away)
Thai
2 entries- ฉุด verb (to take away)
- ลักพา verb (to take away)
Vietnamese
4 entries- bắt cóc verb (to take away)
- cuỗm đi verb (to take away)
- giạng ra verb (to draw away from its ordinary position)
- lừa đem đi verb (to take away)
Welsh
1 entries- cipio verb (to take away)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
He was trying to abduct that girl.
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Nobody knows how or why, but aliens abduct hundreds of people every year.
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Ziri wanted to abduct Rima's baby.
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