noun
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the act or process of drawing away.
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the act of belittling or disparaging another.
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the act or process of carrying off of a person by force or fraud; abduction; kidnapping.
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(physiol.) a pulling of a part of the (by a muscle) away from the median axis; abduction.
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(chem.) a removing of oxygen from (a compound); de-oxidisation.