kidnapper

American  

[kid-nap-er] / ˈkɪdˌnæp ər /

noun

• kidnappers
  plural

1. a person who kidnaps another.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• kidnappers
  plural

Example Sentences

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kidnapper kidnappers

Ali told the BBC: "They arrested the kidnapper, but we don't know what happened next."

From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026

Rather than risk a military confrontation, they forced American troops to play the role of the sleazy kidnapper sneaking in windows.

From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2026

Bill Skarsgård plays the kidnapper, and the rest of the cast includes Dacre Montgomery, Cary Elwes, Colman Domingo and Al Pacino.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 4, 2026

Jane, whose timidity is evident in the way she only reluctantly takes off her winter coat, behaves as though she’s been abducted by an overly solicitous kidnapper.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2025

Besides, she didn’t look like she could be part of a gang or some kind of kidnapper ring, so we followed the sweet-voiced woman as she led us deeper and deeper into the brush.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

"Nigeria is not safe -- terrorists, kidnappers, bandits everywhere," said Becky Alegbe, a street vendor in Abuja.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

So how could Nancy Guthrie's kidnapper, or kidnappers, be caught from these brief ransom notes?

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

“We need to know without a doubt that she is alive and that you have her,” she said, reading a statement directed at the kidnappers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

Over the course of months, investigators made a couple of detentions and conducted a few searches as the Guthrie family made a series of emotional pleas to the kidnappers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

All the information about possible kidnappers would be on Chip Winston’s computer.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix