Deduct vs Abduct - What's the difference?
deduct | abduct |
To take one thing from another; remove from; make smaller by some amount.
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
, 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.
As verbs the difference between deduct and abduct
is that deduct is to take one thing from another; remove from; make smaller by some amount while abduct is to take away by force; to carry away (a human being) wrongfully and usually with violence or deception; to kidnap .deduct
English
Verb
(en verb)- I will deduct the cost of the can of peas from the money I owe you.
