Crossword-Solution: ABDUCTION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Abduction | n. | The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; a carrying away. |
| Abduction | n. | The movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body. |
| Abduction | n. | The wrongful, and usually the forcible, carrying off of a human being; as, the abduction of a child, the abduction of an heiress. |
| Abduction | n. | A syllogism or form of argument in which the major is evident, but the minor is only probable. |
We have 16 clues for the answer “ABDUCTION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ADDUCTION (ant.) | 1 answer |
| MOVEMENT which moves a bone away from midline of the body | 1 answer |
| MUSCLE movement which moves a bone away from midline of the body | 1 answer |
| Taking badly? | 1 answer |
| The act of kidnapping | 1 answer |
| act of taking someone away | 1 answer |
| moving of a body part away from the central axis of the body | 1 answer |
| CONDYLOID joint-type movement | 4 answers |
| BALL and socket joint type movement | 5 answers |
| SADDLE joint type of movement | 5 answers |
| MUSCLE movement, type of | 9 answers |
| kidnapping | 15 answers |
| captivation | 18 answers |
| appropriation | 25 answers |
| seizure | 58 answers |
| stealing | 72 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AEAR
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with ABDUCTION (5)
Word had come of the abduction of Thuvia of Ptarth from her father’s court, and with it the veiled hint that the Prince of Helium might be suspected of considerable knowledge of the act and the whereabouts of the princess.
Among the officers in the last boats to put off from the cruiser was the commander of the vessel; and when he had heard the story of Jane’s abduction, he generously called for volunteers to accompany Professor Porter and Clayton in their search.
When the story of her abduction and her final rescue had been told to Kadour ben Saden he extended his hand to Tarzan.
Esmeralda, the old Negro nurse whose absence on a vacation in America at the time of the abduction of little Jack had been attributed by her as the cause of the calamity, had returned and positively identified the infant.
For the first time there flashed to his understanding the explanation of the reason for the girl’s attempted abduction.
Quotes with ABDUCTION (3)
Science proceeds by inference, rather than by the deduction of mathematical proof. A series of observations is accumulated, forcing the deeper question: What must be true if we are to explain what is observed? What "big picture" of reality offers the best fit to what is actually observed in our experience? American scientist and philosopher Charles S. Peirce used the term "abduction" to refer to the way in which scientists generate theories that might offer the best explanati…
Homer's epic does not tell of such seemingly essential events as the abduction of Helen, for example, nor of the mustering and sailing of the Greek fleet, the first hostilities of the war, the Trojan Horse, and the sacking and burning of Troy. Instead, the 15,693 lines of Homer's Iliad describe the occurrences of a roughly two-week period in the tenth and final year of what had become a stalemated siege of Troy.
When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened and come to half believe the desertion, the abduction, the accident. Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown. Perhaps fantasy is what you fill up maps with rather than saying that they too contain the unknown.
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Appears in: LAT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2010).