Local English word record

kidnap

verb · 1 sense

take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom

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Examples

  • The industrialist's son was kidnapped

Word relationships

Synonyms

nobble, abduct, snatch

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Princeton WordNet 3.0