abdomen, n.1. belly, stomach, Inf.tummy, gut, SI.breadbasket, Scot. and North Eng.
wame; paunch, potbelly, Inf.bay window, Inf.corporation, SI.pot, SI.beerbelly, SI.spare tire, Obs.gorbelly; colonic cavity, intestinal cavity; visceral cavity, Anat., Zool. venter, ventral region, ventricular cavity, Anat.epigastrium; pouch, (of birds) gizzard, (of birds)crop, craw, maw, ingluvies, (of birds)proventriculus, (both of ruminating animals)
first stomach, rumen.
2. intestines, bowels, colons, (of swine)
chitterlings; innards, inwards, insides, vitals, viscera, (of animals) entrails, Inf.gizzard, SI.guts,
abdominal, adj.intestinal, visceral, splanchnic; gastric, stomachic, stomachal, stomachical, Anat.celiac, ventral, ventricular,
abdominous, adj.1. potbellied, round-bellied, big-bellied, SI.beer-bellied, large-bellied, great-bellied, Obs.gorbellied; paunchy, Inf.bay-windowed, Inf corporational; obese, fat, corpulent, overweight, Scot. fodgel; chubby, tubby, pudgy, plump; round, rounded out, rotund, portly.
2. full, bulging, protuberant, bloated, distended; swollen, turgid, tumid; puffy,
abduct, v. 1. (usu. of persons)
carry off, rape, seize, steal, make off oraway with; kidnap, SI.snatch, seize as hostage, hold for ransom; run off with, spirit away, steal away; lay hold of, lay hands on; (usu. in reference to military service)
impress, press, conscript, Naut.
shanghai, crimp.
2. commandeer, take over by force, hijack, skyjack, pirate; expropriate, appropriate, misappropriate, arrogate; wrest from, usurp, accroach; help oneself to, make free with.
3. Usu. Physiol,
abduce, draw away, take away,
abduction, n.1. (all of persons)
robbery, theft,
capture, seizure, rape; man-stealing, kidnapping, child-stealing; impressment, conscription; (both of animals) petnapping, dognapping.
2. commandeering, hijacking, skyjacking, air piracy; expropriation, arrogation, misappropriation,
abductor, n.thief, robber, crook, rapist; kidnapper, petnapper; skyjacker, hijacker, air orsky pirate,
aberrant, adj.1. deviate, deviant, divergent, wayward, devious; erroneous, mistaken; deviating, diverging, departing, divagating, digressing, lapsing, wandering, rambling, straying, roving.
2. anomalous, anomalistic, abnormal, irregular, variable; odd, peculiar, curious, queer, incongruous, strange, errant, bizarre, weird; unconventional, uncommon, unusual, offbeat, out of the ordinary, eccentric, Inf.quirky, original, singular, exceptional, individual; extraordinary, egregious, remarkable, astonishing; monstrous, unnatural, freakish, Inf.freaky, hetero-clite, heteroclitical, heteromorphic, heteromorphous, miscreated, malformed, deformed, misshapen, misshaped, teratoid, teratological, teratogenetic; epicene, androgynous, hermaphroditic, hermaphroditical.
3. perverse, perverted, corrupt, corrupted, twisted, Inf.kinky; depraved, degenerate, degenerated, deteriorated, vitiated, debased, abased.
4. vague, unsound, senile, SI.not all there, SI.not playing with a full deck.
aberration, n.1. deviation, divergence, departure, divarication, divagation, digression, declination, declension; lapse, irregularity, incongruity; waywardness, aberrance, aberrancy; wandering, straying, rambling, deviating, diverging, departing, divagating, digressing.
2. anomaly, abnormality, abnormity, variation; oddity, peculiarity, curiosity, quirk, eccentricity; nonconformity, unconformity, unconventionality, exception, singularity, singularness, bohemianism; strangeness, bizarreness, oddness, curiousness, queerness, freakishness, Inf.freakiness; freak, freak of nature, mutant, deformity, abortion, malformation, miscreation, monster, monstrosity, teratogeny, Biol, teratism, hetero-clite; hermaphrodite, epicene, androgyne.