Noun

(en noun)

An act of swamping (drenching or filling with water).

* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=February 4, author=Andrew C. Revkin, title=A Disaster Epic (in Slo-Mo), work=New York Times citation

, passage=Before the report’s arrival on Friday, the consequences of global warming had been epically imagined — New Orleans-style swampings by superstorms, the specter of an Arctic meltdown and a water gush that would block heat-toting currents in the Atlantic Ocean and trigger an abrupt European cool-down. }}

Noun

(en noun)

Leading away; a carrying away.

(physiology) The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; the movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body. (rfex)

(logic) A syllogism or form of argument in which the major premise is evident, but the minor is only probable.

* 2005 , Ronnie Cann, Ruth Kempson, Lutz Marten, The Dynamics of Language, an Introduction , page 256:

The significance of such a step is that it is not morphologically triggered: it is a step of abduction , and what is required here is a meta-level process of reasoning.

The wrongful, and usually forcible, carrying off of a human being.

the abduction of a child