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abductee|æbdʌkˈtiː|
[f. abduct v. + -ee1.]
A person who has been abducted.
1975Facts on File World News Digest 17 May 333/3 Another abductee had been set free May 13. 1979Daily Tel. 19 Jan. 4/4 Mozambique, which was short of food, had ordered recruits and abductees back across the border. 1983Human Sept./Oct. 13/2 Alleged abductees.
▸ spec. A person who claims to have been surreptitiously abducted by extraterrestrial beings. Cf. abduct v., abduction n.
1977A. H. Lawson Hypnosis of Imaginary Abductees in C. G. Fuller Proc. 1st Internat. UFO Congr. (1980) 195 In an attempt to evaluate objectively the claims of UFO ‘abductees’, imaginary abductions were induced hypnotically. 1988Times 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. 1995Fortean Times Aug.–Sept. 61/2 If the sheer volume of abductee narratives are to be believed, the great majority of abductees had their first experience during childhood. 2001UFO Mag. Jan.–Feb. 15/4 According to UFO folklore, ‘implants’ are traditionally lodged in the nasal cavity of the abductee. |
