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
abduct
abduction
adduct
adduction
against the current
circumduction
cross-country
destined
direction
direction of travel
en route
face
head
inbound
leftward
multidirectional
outbound
overland
right
west

Examples of abducted

abducted

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Quite a few of these were abducted from small towns and villages rather than being volunteers.
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 girl also cannot turn around or be compelled to say that she had been abducted.
This move obviates a legal charge from the girl's family that the boy abducted the girl.
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.
In many such cases the girl, under pressure from her family, charges that the boy abducted her.
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.
To be sure, the published figures for the recovery of abducted women seem to paint a slightly different picture.
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.
I have not been abducted by aliens.
Nanhui women who were abducted or witnessed abductions are generally in their eighties and nineties.
Why had they been abducted?
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