abduct
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom
The industrialist's son was kidnapped
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- abduction derivation
- kidnapping derivation
- abductor derivation
- crime domain topic
Sense 2 verb
pull away from the body
this muscle abducts
Types & categories
- pull hypernym
Related & opposite
- adduct antonym
- abduction derivation
- abductor muscle derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | abduction |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | kidnapping |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | abductor |
| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | crime |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | seize |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | shanghai |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | adduct |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | abduction |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | abductor muscle |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | pull |