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abduct

verb as in take by force and without permission

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An Israeli couple who were abducted during the 7 October 2023 Hamas attacks have been reunited, two years after they were violently split up.

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The video showed a tall, lean man wearing a sky-blue T-shirt, dark blue shorts and distinctive striped sandals like those worn by Bipin on the day he was abducted.

Guy Gilboa Dalal was taken from Supernova, his first rave party, along with three friends when he was abducted by Hamas.

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Nimrodi, 20, is a soldier who was abducted at a border checkpoint between Israel and northern Gaza.

Nearly 20,000 Ukrainian children have been abducted since the start of the war, according to Ukraine’s state-run “Bring Kids Back” program, and only a fraction have been returned.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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