abducteen.
/ˌabdʌkˈtiː/, U.S. /əbˌdəkˈti/, /æbˌdəkˈti/ 1. A person who has been abducted.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > stolen goods > [noun] > one who is kidnapped or abducted
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1832 Monthly Rev. Nov. 361 In this case the abductor is no more to blame than the abductee.
1933 Helena (Montana) Independent 8 June 4/2 One almost expects to read that the abductors tap-danced their way..to the bathroom where the abductee was waiting capture.
1975 Facts on File World News Digest 17 May 333/3 Another abductee had been set free.
2005 Nature 3 Feb. 445/1 Pressure on North Korea to release survivors has since seen five abductees return to Japan accompanied by their families.
2. spec. A person who claims to have been surreptitiously abducted by extraterrestrial beings. Cf. abduct v. 2c, abduction n. 2b.
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1974 Southern Voices May–June 38/3 Three creatures floated out of the craft and took the two men aboard without force... Murphy covered the entire abduction affair from the outset,..though he..never met nor had an opportunity to deal directly with the two abductees.
1988 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 May 556/3 We have seen a UFO abductee..accorded by the media the attention and respect they usually reserve for a major criminal.
1995 Fortean Times Aug. 61/2 If the sheer volume of abductee narratives are to be believed, the great majority of abductees had their first experience during childhood.
2001 UFO Mag. Jan. 15/4 According to UFO folklore, ‘implants’ are traditionally lodged in the nasal cavity of the abductee.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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