Verb

(en verb)

To take away by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually with violence or deception; to kidnap.

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, year=1904 , author=Jules Verne , title=The Master of the World , chapter=16 , url=http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/v/verne/jules/v52mw/chapter16.html , 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.