Definition of "abducting" []

• Present participle of abduct. (verb)

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• "The Japanese, in abducting children from foreign countries, many times against court orders, and sometimes using false passports, are committing FELONY CRIMES in the nation from which the abduction took place."
• "The majority of the world recognizes that North Korea committed international crimes in abducting those citizens, and likewise the rest of the world recognizes that Japan has and still is committing international crimes by allowing international child abductions to occur."
• "While the curiosity-seeking policeman was garroting Benjamin Franklin, with the idea of abducting him, a small monkey, flung from the windowsill by the strong hand of an impatient fireman, made a straight dive, hitting Poor Richard just below the waistcoat, and passing through his stomach, as fairly as the Harlequin in the ` Green Monster 'pantomime ever pierced the picture with the slit in it, which always hangs so conveniently low and near."