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Abdicable
- adjective - capable of being discarded or renounced or relinquished; "abdicable responsibilites"
Abdicated
- verb - give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations; "The King abdicated when he married a divorcee"
Abdicates
- verb - give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations; "The King abdicated when he married a divorcee"
Abdicator
- noun - one who formally relinquishes an office or responsibility
Abducents
- noun - a small motor nerve supplying the lateral rectus muscle of the eye
Abducting
- verb - especially of muscles; drawing away from the midline of the body or from an adjacent part
- pull away from the body; "this muscle abducts"
- take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom; "The industrialist's son was kidnapped"
Abduction
- noun - (physiology) moving of a body part away from the central axis of the body
- the criminal act of capturing and carrying away by force a family member; if a man's wife is abducted it is a crime against the family relationship and against the wife
Abductors
- noun - a muscle that draws a body part away from the median line
- someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom)
Addicting
- verb - to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug)
Addiction
- noun - (Roman law) a formal award by a magistrate of a thing or person to another person (as the award of a debtor to his creditor); a surrender to a master; "under Roman law addiction was the justification for slavery"
- an abnormally strong craving
- being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)