[
US
/æbˈdəktɝ, əbˈdəktɝ/
]
[ UK /ɐbdˈʌktɐ/ ]
[ UK /ɐbdˈʌktɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a muscle that draws a body part away from the median line
- someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom)
How To Use abductor In A Sentence
- He is a murderer and a child abductor but he doesn't go on the register for that.
- However, such a shocking thing as violence is hardly hinted at, and the Princess always succeeds, as the Creole lady in _Newton Forster_ said she did with the pirates, in "temporising," while her abductors confine themselves for the most part to the finest "Phébus. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
- Police believe she was escaping the abductor when she fell into the path of a passing car.
- She hadn't yet seen any other sign of life besides her abductor and her abductor's family.
- Keep them aligned over the second toe of each foot to maintain the proper balance of tension between your adductors and abductors.
- To me, he will always be a dirty thief and a ruthless abductor!
- Relatives are begging his abductors to let them speak with him.
- No doubt, these chronic cases are due to suspended innervation and are not to be classed with the ordinary case of atrophy of the abductor muscles of the humerus (supra - and infraspinatus) as in the usual case of Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
- Your hip abductors are a very small muscle group that is really part of your gluteals, says Keli Roberts, co-author of Stronger Legs and Lower Body.
- At the same instant a dozen red warriors leaped from the entrance of a nearby ersite palace, pursuing the abductor with naked swords and shouts of rageful warning. Thuvia, Maid of Mars