Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who kidnaps; a man-stealer or child-stealer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who steals or forcibly carries away a human being; a manstealer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
kidnaps someone.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom)
- noun someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom)
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Examples
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"I'm convinced that this kidnapper is a very well-educated man."
Follow the Mullahs 2004
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"I'm convinced that this kidnapper is a very well-educated man."
Follow the Mullahs 2004
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FEYERICK: Hoping that maybe they can appeal to what they called the kidnapper's sense of dignity.
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The predator rapist/kidnapper is going to A.. be more likely to hire a sex worker then commit the crime as part of that scenario.
Thoughts on rescues, rescuers and realities « Bound, Not Gagged 2009
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My daughter was kidnapped in my own house, and the kidnapper is demanding my top secret formula, something that cannot fall in the wrong hands.
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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Several months later, Mary Katherine remembered that Mitchell was among the homeless people the Smarts sometimes hired to do odd jobs and he was identified as the kidnapper.
The Guardian World News Chris McGreal 2011
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The only thing left open to the kidnapper is face-to-face meets and that’s fish-in-a-barrel time for law enforcement.
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The only thing left open to the kidnapper is face-to-face meets and that’s fish-in-a-barrel time for law enforcement.
October 2007 2007
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GRACE: And then the so-called kidnapper says you know what, to heck with all the money.
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I also found out that the investigators that were supposedly out working for the Anthony ` s were not even pursuing trying to find the kidnapper, which is very interesting to us.
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