Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that takes another as a captive.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who captures or takes (a person or thing) by force, stratagem, or surprise; one who takes a prisoner or a prize.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who captures any person or thing, as a prisoner or a prize.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who is holding a
captive or captives. - noun One who
catches or has caught orcaptured something or someone.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who captures and holds people or animals
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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These dance sequences are occasionally punctuated by hallucinatory images such as Thoreau wandering into a convenience store along with his forest dancers (who are partial to a Crystal Lite machine in what may be the strangest product placement captured on film) or an African American gentleman chained up in the bed of a truck, only to be released later while his captor is buried up to his neck on a beach.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2004
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She called her captor every name, and lived to take back all but one: Lover.
Touch the Wind Janet Dailey 1986
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She called her captor every name, and lived to take back all but one: Lover.
Touch the Wind Janet Dailey 1986
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His captor is the Earl Ragnar, a Danish chieftain, who raises the boy as his own, teaching him the Viking ways of war.
Review: The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell Jeff C 2010
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What is worse, her captor is the infamous Beauceron.
:Acquired Taste Tim Stretton 2010
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What is worse, her captor is the infamous Beauceron.
Archive 2010-05-01 Tim Stretton 2010
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If his own lord wins, he is delivered without reproach, and if his captor is the victor he is immune just as surely, safe from injury in the battle or reprisals after it.
His Disposition 2010
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Her captor is a deranged man named Moses, looking to satisfy his burning desire to kill.
Image Comics Sneak Peek of the Week | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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Mr. Ledbetter perceived that on a chair beside his captor was a large black bag on a heap of crumpled papers, and that there were torn and burnt papers on the table.
Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006
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The Austrian teenager who spent eight years in captivity in a small dungeon says her captor was a part of her life, and that now she is mourning his him in certain ways.
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Leonard takes some fireworks out of his knapsack and sets off an awesome display. His captors are transfixed.
- William Steig, The Zabajaba Jungle
October 5, 2008