To take someone away illegally by force or deception; kidnap.
Shared component: duct · lead
WORD FAMILY
lead
Related forms: duc · duct · 69 words in this dictionary
To take someone away illegally by force or deception; kidnap.
Shared component: duct · lead
to cause something to happen or exist
Shared component: duc · lead
To organize and perform a particular activity.
Shared component: duct · lead
A tube or channel for carrying something, especially air, liquid, or cables.
Shared component: duc · lead
To take away an amount or part from a total.
Shared component: duct · lead
To formally admit someone to a position or an organization, often with a special ceremony.
Shared component: duct · lead
To make something smaller in size, amount, degree, importance, or price.
Shared component: duc · lead
(of a metal) able to be drawn out into a thin wire.
Shared component: duct · lead
A person who directs the performance of an orchestra or choir.
Shared component: duct · lead
The process of introducing someone to a new job, skill, or organization
Shared component: duct · lead
Producing or able to produce large amounts of goods, crops, or other commodities.
Shared component: duct · lead
not able to be reduced or simplified
Shared component: duc · lead
To teach someone, especially in a school or college, or to be taught in this way.
Shared component: duc · lead
Something that is made or grown to be sold or used.
Shared component: duct · lead
A long, high bridge, typically with a series of arches, that carries a road or railway across a valley or other low ground.
Shared component: duct · lead
a structure like a bridge, used for carrying a waterway or pipe across a valley or other gap.
Shared component: duct · lead
making a certain situation or outcome likely or possible; favorable.
Shared component: duc · lead
Relating to a logical process where a specific conclusion is necessarily reached from general principles or premises.
Shared component: duct · lead
The process of teaching or learning, especially in a school or college, or the knowledge that you get from this.
Shared component: duc · lead
the act or process of making something smaller or less in size, amount, degree, or price
Shared component: duct · lead
The act of persuading someone to do something, especially something wrong or unwise, by making it seem attractive.
Shared component: duct · lead
Tempting and attractive; enticing.
Shared component: duct · lead
able to be taken away from an amount or sum.
Shared component: duct · lead
The process of making or growing something, especially in large quantities.
Shared component: duct · lead
The act of bringing something into use or existence for the first time.
Shared component: duct · lead
the act or process of producing babies, young animals, or plants
Shared component: duct · lead
Relating to or characteristic of a duke or duchy.
Shared component: duc · lead
Brought about or caused.
Shared component: duc · lead
A person or thing that induces something, especially a substance that causes a biological process to begin.
Shared component: duc · lead
made smaller or less in amount, degree, or size
Shared component: duc · lead
A device or substance used to reduce the size, amount, or intensity of something, such as a pipe fitting or a chemical agent.
Shared component: duc · lead
A person who entices someone into sexual activity, especially by means of persuasion or temptation.
Shared component: duc · lead
Past tense and past participle of abduct: to take someone away illegally by force or deception; kidnap.
Shared component: duct · lead
A person who takes someone away illegally by force or deception; a kidnapper.
Shared component: duct · lead
a muscle that moves a part of the body toward the midline of the body or toward another part.
Shared component: duct · lead
A system of ducts or pipes used for air conditioning, ventilation, or heating.
Shared component: duct · lead
Made, manufactured, or created something
Shared component: duc · lead
A person, company, or country that makes, grows, or supplies goods or commodities for sale.
Shared component: duc · lead
Making something smaller or less in amount, degree, or size.
Shared component: duc · lead
The act of taking someone away illegally by force or deception; kidnapping.
Shared component: duct · lead
The movement of a limb or other part toward the midline of the body or toward another part.
Shared component: duct · lead
Able to be deduced or logically inferred from something known or assumed.
Shared component: duc · lead
The process of using known facts to form a conclusion or decide something logically.
Shared component: duct · lead
The ability of a material, especially a metal, to be drawn out into a thin wire or hammered thin without breaking.
Shared component: duct · lead
Teaching or instructing someone, especially in a school or college, to develop their knowledge, skills, or character.
Shared component: duc · lead
Relating to or using a method of reasoning in which general principles are derived from specific observations or instances.
Shared component: duct · lead
The present participle or gerund of the verb 'produce', meaning to make or manufacture something from components or raw materials.
Shared component: duc · lead
able to be simplified or made less complex
Shared component: duc · lead
Tending to present a subject or problem in a simplified form, especially one viewed as oversimplifying or distorting the complexity.
Shared component: duct · lead
(of a person or organization) organizing and carrying out an activity or operation.
Shared component: duct · lead
The process by which heat or electricity passes through a substance.
Shared component: duct · lead
Having the property of conducting something, especially heat or electricity.
Shared component: duct · lead
something that is offered to persuade someone to do something
Shared component: duc · lead
the property of an electric circuit or component that causes an electromotive force to be generated by a change in the current flowing through it.
Shared component: duct · lead
To make something exist or happen for the first time in a place or situation.
Shared component: duc · lead
a person or thing that reproduces something, especially a device for playing back recorded sound or video.
Shared component: duc · lead
A woman who seduces someone, especially one who uses her sexual attractiveness to lead them astray.
Shared component: duct · lead
a device that converts variations in a physical quantity, such as pressure or brightness, into an electrical signal, or vice versa.
Shared component: duc · lead
in a way that cannot be made smaller, simpler, or less in degree or amount
Shared component: duc · lead
in a manner that tempts or entices someone, often in a sexual or appealing way.
Shared component: duct · lead
serving as an introduction to a subject or topic; basic or preliminary.
Shared component: duct · lead
in a way that achieves a significant amount or result
Shared component: duct · lead
The practice of analyzing and describing a complex phenomenon in terms of its simple or fundamental constituents, especially when this is said to provide a sufficient explanation.
Shared component: duct · lead
to bring something, such as a law, a species, or a practice, back into use or existence after a period when it was not used
Shared component: duc · lead
The process by which genetic material, a signal, or energy is transferred from one cell, system, or form to another.
Shared component: duct · lead
The quality or state of being able to be deducted, especially from taxable income.
Shared component: duct · lead
explaining or describing a complex phenomenon by analyzing its simplest, most basic physical parts, often ignoring other factors.
Shared component: duct · lead
Causing or creating stress, anxiety, or tension.
Shared component: duc · lead
Having the effect of lessening or alleviating stress.
Shared component: duc · lead