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Kidnapping   /kˈɪdnˌæpɪŋ/   Listen
Kidnapping

noun
1.
(law) the unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment.  Synonym: snatch.



Kidnap

verb
(past & past part. kidnapped or kidnaped; pres. part. kidnapping or kidnaping)
1.
Take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom.  Synonyms: abduct, nobble, snatch.



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"Kidnapping" Quotes from Famous Books



... castle of the good Alhahuza, and ultimately into the kingdom of Oozoff, where Ochihatou's magic has no power over her. During her stay there she listens to much political theorizing of a republican trend. Ochihatou succeeds in kidnapping her, and she is only saved from his loathed embraces by discovering one of his former mistresses in the form of a monkey whom she manages to change back into human shape and substitutes in her stead. While the statesman is employed ...
— The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood • George Frisbie Whicher

... Sir Rudolf had heard of Babette,—the story of whose kidnapping was told all over the country, and became more wonderful with every telling. Some people said that the devil himself had carried her off; this was really unkind; for Babette, though lively, was not a bad girl, ...
— Fairy Tales from the German Forests • Margaret Arndt

... Durie's abduction and captivity is differently told by Chambers in his Domestic Annals of Scotland, as far, at least, as the instigator of the kidnapping and its accomplisher are concerned. It is there recorded that the maker of the plot to kidnap the judge was George Meldrum the Younger of Dumbreck. Accompanied by two Jardines and a Johnston—good Border names—and by some other men, Meldrum ...
— Stories of the Border Marches • John Lang and Jean Lang

... "Well, I ain't kidnapping cow-punchers to steal my boat," replied Hopalong. "An' you fellers stand still or I'll drop you cold!" he ordered to the assembled and restless crew. "Johnny!" he shouted, and his companion popped up ...
— Bar-20 Days • Clarence E. Mulford

... it all clear to you? Stopping boats, kidnapping gentlemen. That's fun in a way, only—I am a youngster to you—but is it all clear to you? Old Robinson wasn't particular, ...
— The Rescue • Joseph Conrad


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