Abduct vs Abrupt - What's the difference?
abduct | abrupt |
To take away by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually with violence or deception; to kidnap.
* {{quote-book
, year=1904
, author=Jules Verne
, title=The Master of the World
, chapter=16
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, passage=That same night he had by force abducted the president and the secretary of the club, and had taken them, much against their will upon a voyage in the wonderful air-ship, the “Albatross,” which he had constructed.}}
(physiology) To draw away, as a limb or other part, from its ordinary position; to move similar parts apart.
(obsolete, rare) Broken away (from restraint).
Without notice to prepare the mind for the event; sudden; hasty; unceremonious.
* (rfdate) (William Shakespeare), Henry VI Part I, II-iii
Curt in manner; brusque; rude; uncivil; impolite.
Having sudden transitions from one subject or state to another; unconnected; disjointed.
* (rfdate) (Ben Jonson)
(obsolete) Broken off.
Extremely steep or craggy as if broken up; precipitous.
* (rfdate) (Thomson)
(botany) Suddenly terminating, as if cut off; truncate.
(archaic) To tear off or asunder.
* (rfdate) Sir T. (Browne)
To interrupt suddenly.
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As verbs the difference between abduct and abrupt
is that abduct is to take away by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually with violence or deception; to kidnap while abrupt is (archaic) to tear off or asunder .As an adjective abrupt is
(obsolete|rare) broken away (from restraint) .As a noun abrupt is
(poetic) something which is ; an abyss .abduct
English
Verb
(en verb)Synonyms
* kidnap * seizeDerived terms
* abductee * abductiveReferences
abrupt
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- The party came to an abrupt end when the parents of our host arrived.
- The cause of your abrupt departure.
- The abrupt style, which hath many breaches.
- Tumbling through ricks abrupt .
- (Gray)
Synonyms
* (precipitous) broken, rough, rugged * (without time to prepare) brusque, sudden * (uncivil)blunt, brusque * (without transition) disconnected, unexpectedVerb
(en verb)- Till death abrupts them.