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the universe's most dramatic way of saying someone left without packing.
means The act of taking someone away by force or deception, often illegally, against their will.
from From Latin abductio, from abducere 'to lead away' — built from ab- 'away' and ducere 'to lead,' the same ducere that fathered conduct, induce, and seduce. The word literally pictures a person being led off, hand or arm in someone else's grip. It entered English by the 1600s, first as a stiff legal and anatomical term (muscles still 'abduct' a limb, drawing it away from the body's midline) before drifting into the realm of kidnappings and, much later, alien spacecraft.
- muscle name
- abductor muscles literally pull limbs away from your body
- alien obsession
- reported UFO abductions spiked after 1960s sci-fi films
- legal roots
- the word once meant a forced, illegal marriage
- logic too
- abductive reasoning guesses the likeliest explanation, like detectives do
betty and barney hill — new hampshire couple who reported being taken by ufo aliens in 1961, became famous case in ufo history
roswell incident — 1947 new mexico crash site where us military allegedly recovered an alien spacecraft
ariel school sighting — 62 zimbabwean schoolchildren reported ufo landing and alien contact in harare on september 16, 1994