This is Heaslop’s punishment for abducting our witness in order to stop us establishing our alibi.
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
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Merriam-Webster
— to seize and take away (a person) by force
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Macmillan
— to take someone away from their home, family etc using force
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Other Word Forms
abduct
abducted
abducts
Usage
1 use of ‘abducting’ in A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster