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Definition of Kidnapper
1. Noun. Someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom).
Generic synonyms: Captor, Capturer, Criminal, Crook, Felon, Malefactor, Outlaw
Specialized synonyms: Crimp, Crimper, Seizer, Shanghaier
Derivative terms: Abduct, Kidnap, Kidnap, Snatch
Definition of Kidnapper
1. Noun. A person who kidnaps someone. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Kidnapper
1. kidnaper [n -S] - See also: kidnaper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kidnapper
Literary usage of Kidnapper
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Kidnapped and the Ransomed: Being the Personal Recollections of Peter by Kate E. R. Pickard, William Henry Furness (1856)
"THE kidnapper. LATE in the afternoon of a pleasant summer day, two little boys
were playing before the door of their mother's cottage. ..."
2. The History of Maine by John Stevens Cabot Abbott, Edward Henry Elwell (1892)
"... Colony Abandoned — Private Adventures — Infamy of Poutrincourt—The Scenery of
Mount Desert — Mon- hegan in its Glory — Harlow the kidnapper — Valor of ..."
3. Plymouth and the pilgrims; or incidents of adventure in the history of the by Joseph Banvard (1851)
"—A kidnapper. — Indians enslaved. — More Visitors.— Squanto's Adventures. — Indian
Chiefs. — Visit of Ceremony. — First Treaty. — The Visit returned. ..."
4. Representative Plays by American Dramatists by Montrose Jonas Moses (1918)
"kidnapper. That's clever; they have no right to make you slaves, I wish all the
... kidnapper. Well, then I'll christen you—you shall be called Major Cudjo ..."
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