kidnap
verb (used with object)
to steal, carry off, or abduct by force or fraud, especially for use as a hostage or to extract ransom.
had kidnaped
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past perfectof kidnap.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The most celebrated involved Vitaly Yurchenko, the KGB agent who defected to the U.S. and, three months later, made a grandstand return to the U.S.S.R., claiming that the CIA had kidnaped and tortured him.
From Time Magazine Archive
Twelve days later he reappeared in suburban La Grange, with a luxuriant beard and the story that Touhy and his mob had kidnaped him for $70,000 ransom.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Princess was never stolen again—indeed the necromancer across the river who had kidnaped her was imprisoned for life on a diet of pop-corn which he popped himself.
From The Pot of Gold And Other Stories by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
When I got here I go straight to de constable and tell him dat I was in search of two men who had kidnaped Captain Wingfield's slave.
From With Lee in Virginia A Story of the American Civil War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
