kidnap
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- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 6
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Definition of kidnap
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(transitive)To seize or detain a person unlawfully and move or conceal them; sometimes for ransom.
“Hello, ladies! How’s the Big Apple? Rotten, Jerry! Clover's been kidnapped! Oh, dear! That's the second time this month!”
“Angrest, a soldier, was kidnapped from his tank at the Nahal Oz base when it was attacked by Hamas.”
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verb
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(transitive)To seize or detain a person unlawfully and move or conceal them; sometimes for ransom.
“Hello, ladies! How’s the Big Apple? Rotten, Jerry! Clover's been kidnapped! Oh, dear! That's the second time this month!”
“Angrest, a soldier, was kidnapped from his tank at the Nahal Oz base when it was attacked by Hamas.”
noun
- (countable, uncountable)The crime, or an instance, of kidnapping.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From kid + nap (“to nab; to grab”). Originally Thieves' cant, referring to the practice of stealing children and shipping them to colonies or plantations as laborers. First attested c. 1680.
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