abduct

Related to abduct: adduct

abduct (someone) from

To kidnap. Someone abducted that little girl from her parents' home in the middle of the night. I hope the dog wasn't abducted from our yard.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

abduct someone from someone or something

to take away or kidnap a person from someone or from a particular place, usually in secret. The thugs abducted the child from her mother.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • abduct (someone) from
  • abduct from
  • hold (someone) for ransom
  • hold for ransom
  • Give an inch and he'll take a mile
  • give (someone or something) the run of (some place)
  • have the run of (some place)
  • feel oats
  • feel one's oats
  • feel your oats
References in periodicals archive
In 2017, 651 children were abducted. Of the total, 621 children were recovered and 30 were still missing.
These offenders generally abduct their victims in domestic-type disputes, which represents a departure from the familial emotion-based cases typical of younger children.
When responding police officers navigate through a situation with no witnesses, obvious crime scene, nor clues to what happened, they might find it difficult to distinguish an abducted child from a runaway initially.
Also,Shahbaz and his accomplices seduced and abducted Tehmina from Rafiq colony,whereas unidentified accused kidnapped Maria from chak 198-RB.
Separately, Nazeer Ahmed reported to Wah Saddar police that his uncle Sultan Mehmood was abducted over a land dispute.
This team worked hard and succeeded to recover the abducted boy from area of `Kandhyara' police station area in Nooshero Feeroz.
In June last year, another rifleman--Aurangzeb--was abducted from Pulwama byterrorists and hisbullet-ridden bodywas recovered later the same month.
Last year, an MCA in the same county was abducted by unknown people and his body found dumped at the Ol Donyo Sabuk River three days later.
Ha Tae-keung of the conservative Bareun Party claimed last week that Choi, who worked for Daily NK, a Seoul-based internet news outlet specializing in North Korea, had been abducted from the China-North Korea border in May last year.
It was gathered that among the abducted persons was Audu Kano, the BirninGwari branch Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) and seven members of the union.
Relatives of the abducted families, Wali Mohammad, Niaz Mohammad, Khial Zar and Shair Hussain thanked the society for providing assistance to the victim families.
Israeli military vehicles broke into Teqoua' town, east of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, searched many homes, and abducted two children aged 15 and 16.
Islamabad -- At least four persons including two women have allegedly been abducted within the Noon, Aabpara and Koral Police jurisdictions.
Persons suspected to be New People's Army (NOA) rebels abducted last Sunday, Feb.
10 July 2016 - 11:50 Iran Pushes for finding abducted Iranian diplomats Iranian Envoy: Liberation of Iranian Abducted Diplomats Is a National Demand He made the remarks in a meeting with the Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri at the presence of Maryam Mojtahed Zadeh Larijani the wife of Iran's abducted charge de affair in Lebanon.