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.
kidnaper
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a word derived from
kidnap.
Example Sentences
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A saintly hunchback is the central character, and a burly intruding kidnaper the principal flame of drama.
From Time Magazine Archive
While night editor of the New York Journal-American in 1934, Shainmark suggested comparing handwriting samples of Suspect Bruno Richard Hauptmann with ransom notes of the kidnaper of Charles Lindbergh's slain 20-month-old son.
From Time Magazine Archive
With official connivance, Tweed escaped from the Ludlow Street Jail and fled to Spain, where authorities recognized him from a Thomas Nast cartoon and arrested him as the kidnaper of two American children.
From Time Magazine Archive
The medium is actually a fake, and so is the victim who is actually the kidnaper.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were discoursing thus as they proceeded along the highway, provided this time with such good weapons that not every kidnaper of slaves would have cared to attack them.
From Pretty Michal by Mór Jókai
