Usually means: Kidnapping or taking someone unlawfully.
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  1. abduction: Merriam-Webster
  2. abduction: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. abduction: Collins English Dictionary
  4. abduction: Vocabulary.com
  5. Abduction, abduction: Wordnik
  6. abduction: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. abduction: Wiktionary
  8. abduction: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. abduction: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. abduction: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. abduction: Dictionary.com
  12. abduction: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Abduction (The Outer Limits), Abduction (anatomy), Abduction (disambiguation), Abduction (kinesiology), Abduction (logic), Abduction (novel), Abduction, Abduction: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Abduction: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. abduction: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. abduction: Rhymezone
  17. abduction: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. abduction: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. abduction: FreeDictionary.org
  20. abduction: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. abduction: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. abduction: Merriam-Webster

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Philosophy of Mind (No longer online)
  2. Abduction: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. abduction: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. abduction: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Abduction (of Child): DivorceNet.com (Annotated Divorce Law Dictionary)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. abduction: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. abduction: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. abduction: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. abduction: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Abduction: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  5. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  6. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  7. abduction: Medical dictionary
  8. Abduction: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Abduction: Catholic Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (abduction)

noun:  Leading away; a carrying away.
noun:  (anatomy) 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.
noun:  (logic) A syllogism or form of argument in which the major premise is evident, but the minor is only probable.
noun:  (law) The wrongful, and usually forcible, carrying off of a human being.
noun:  (ufology) Alien abduction.

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