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A particular functor on the category of abelian groups?

Is there a functor $F$ from the category of abelian groups to itself such that for every non trivial group $G$, $F(G)$ can not be embedded in $G$?

Edit: According to the comment by Prof. Goodwillie I change the question as follows:

Is there a functor $F$ on the category of infinite abelian groups which does not increase the cardinality of groups but for every infinite group $G$, the group $F(G)$ can not be embedded in $G$? By "Does not increase the cardinality" we mean $\text {Card}(F(G)) \leq \text{Card}( G)$

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