English-Spanish translations for abduct

secuestrarPero, ¿no es cierto que, si es posible secuestrar a un niño, también lo es hacerse con su pasaporte? Yet is it not true that, if it is possible to abduct a child, it is also possible to get hold of his or her passport? No se debe secuestrar a personas ni retenerlas en prisiones secretas o centros de detención o comoquiera que se las llame eufemísticamente. There must be no abduction of persons and no detaining them in secret prisons or detention centres or whatever these might euphemistically be called. Espero que se pida a Turquía que obligue a sus habitantes a renunciar a su pésima costumbre de secuestrar a las bonitas mujeres griegas, una cosa que hacen desde los tiempos de la guerra de Troya. I hope Turkey will be asked to commit its citizens to abandoning their dreadful custom of abducting the most beautiful Greek women, something they have been doing since the days of the Trojan War.

To take away by force; to carry away wrongfully and usually with violence or deception; to kidnap.
To draw away, as a limb or other part, from the median axis of the body.

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