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KIDNAPER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does kidnaper mean?
• KIDNAPER (noun)
The noun KIDNAPER has 1 sense:
1. someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom)
Familiarity information: KIDNAPER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
abductor; kidnaper; kidnapper; snatcher
Hypernyms ("kidnaper" is a kind of...):
captor; capturer (a person who captures and holds people or animals)
criminal; crook; felon; malefactor; outlaw (someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "kidnaper"):
crimp; crimper (someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers)
seizer; shanghaier (a kidnapper who drugs men and takes them for compulsory service aboard a ship)
Derivation:
kidnap (take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom)
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