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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John Hall, the respected father of the kidnaper, pointed out to me the massacre site . . . back in July 1930, when his fateful son Carl was a harmless lad of twelve .
From Time Magazine Archive
But Spielberg, as he demonstrated in Close Encounters, is no kidnaper.
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
In 1932 its city editor, Henry Coit, was the first to report that Charles Lindbergh had paid a ransom to the kidnaper of his son.
From Time Magazine Archive
She declared she was thrifty, but neither a miser, nor a kidnaper, nor a witch.
From Welsh Fairy Tales by William Elliot Griffis
