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
But Spielberg, as he demonstrated in Close Encounters, is no kidnaper.
From Time Magazine Archive
Webb grew to regard him as a veritable kidnaper, but Webb did more than fume.
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
