snatch(TAKE QUICKLY)

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to take someone somewhere
takeI have to take my mother to the doctor today.
go withI offered to go with him to the police station.
come withCan you come to the hospital with me?
accompanyChildren under 12 must be accompanied by an adult.
driveMy husband usually drives the kids to school.
give someone a liftCan you give me a lift into town?

abductverb[T] (MOVE BODY PART)

medical specialized
to move a part of the body away from the central part of the body or away from another body part: 使（肢体等）外展
Listen for a clicking sound as the child's hips are abducted.听，这个孩子的髋部外展打开时就会发出咔嗒一声。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Direction of motion
abduction
adduct
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against the current
around
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destined
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direction of travel
en route
face
facing
into
leftward
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outbound
overland
right
the right/wrong/other way aroundidiom
west

abduct | American Dictionary

abduct
verb[ T ]
us/æbˈdʌkt, əb-/
to take a person away by force:
Kidnappers abducted the child from the playground.

abduction

noun[ C/U ]us/æbˈdʌk·ʃən, əb-/
[ C ]The abduction took place in front of several helpless witnesses.

Examples of abduct

abduct
Breathy voice is implemented primarily through abducting the vocal folds via the posterior cricoarytenoid muscles.
Quite a few of these were abducted from small towns and villages rather than being volunteers.
Some people prefer to adduct the other fingers and some abduct the other fingers so as not to disturb manipulation.
It also points to the public nature of the abducting 'ceremony'.
The rebels on the other hand had few problems in replenishing and expanding their military stock by abducting young men in the territories they overran.
It lacked the affective followership of armed movements in other failed states and most of its recruits were abducted.
This is not the case for voiceless plosives, however, and both aspirated and unaspirated voiceless plosives have an abducted glottis throughout oral closure.
The abducting men carried cudgels hidden in their clothes but took them out only if necessary.
The widow was confronted by an abducting party with a sedan chair ready to take her away.
Their property was sequestered and the women were abducted.
Their arms are placed in the following position: forearms neutral, 2 elbows flexed to about radians and shoulders slightly abducted and flexed.
But the shortfall does not necessarily indicate that many fewer women were abducted in the states.
This is because, in order to produce frication, the vocal folds need to be slightly abducted.
In one experiment, we gave participants a choice between abducting or adducting their hand in picking up the bar.
The central plot concerns a king whose beloved sister is abducted by an ogre (nyak) ruler who transforms himself into a hawk to carry her away.
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