If someone is abducted by another person, he or she is taken away illegally, usually using force. His car was held up and he was abducted by four gunmen She was charged with abducting a six-month-old child. = kidnap + abduction abductions ab·duc·tion the abduction of four youths. + abductor abductors ab·duc·tor She co-operated with her abductor. to take someone away by force = kidnap
To take away surreptitiously by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually by violence; to kidnap