abductor

¹

[ ab-duhk-ter ]

noun

1. a person who abducts.

abductor

²

[ ab-duhk-ter ]

noun

1. any muscle that abducts ( adductor ).

abductor

/ ăb-dŭk′tər /

1. A muscle that draws a limb or part of a limb away from the midline of the body.
2. Compare adductor

Word History and Origins

Origin of abductor¹

First recorded in 1840–50; abduct + -or ²

Origin of abductor²

From New Latin, dating back to 1605–15; abduce, -tor

Example Sentences

The husband, meanwhile, claims that he found her at a railway station and managed to rescue her from the abductors, and later, they decided to get married.

From No Straight News

Richard Ben Cramer explores the abduction of Olympic athlete Kari Swenson and the indefatigable sheriff who hunted her abductor.

From The Daily Beast

Jaycee Dugard, who was held captive for 18 years in a squalid series of tents by her abductor, who fathered her two children.

From The Daily Beast

Her parents tell Evie Salomon how they picture her abductor—if he exists at all.

From The Daily Beast

In the nearly four months since then, her parents have only grown more haunted by the specter of her abductor.

From The Daily Beast

Till then I hadnt had the faintest idea that my abductor was the Gray Phantom.

From Project Gutenberg

Your sweetheart's abductor is no other than the Marquis de Villebelle.

From Project Gutenberg

He comes to beg my help in discovering the abductor of her he loves.

From Project Gutenberg

Was she a true woman or what my fears pictured her—the scheming, unprincipled abductor of Gwendolen Ocumpaugh?

From Project Gutenberg

I did not hate him, for I found it, even now, impossible to believe that he was the abductor of my girl.

From Project Gutenberg