(n.) One who captures any person or thing, as a prisoner or a prize.
Example Sentences:
(1) Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is a semi-invasive examination that provides better images of the atrium than classical transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) due to the anatomical positioning of the captor and the high frequency Doppler apparatus used.
(2) Or the story about how Rich was en route from Switzerland to Finland and had to order his jet to reverse course at 20,000ft to avoid being arrested by the FBI at Helsinki airport; or the secret tunnel he built between the 'Dallas building' and the Glashof restaurant opposite so he could slip out to lunch without fear of being assassinated; or the time he was held hostage in Azerbaijan while his captors considered whether or not to sell him to the Russians (who were allegedly pissed off with Rich for nicking their reserves of gold and other precious metals), or the rumours that Rich had slipped in and out of Britain and the US on numerous occasions under false passports.
(3) Media had been asked to refrain from reporting this for fear of further increasing the danger to him from his captors.
(4) She was freed by her captor's wife after months of confinement in one room at their home in Riyadh, the Saudi capital.
(5) The head of the Tripoli supreme security committee, Hashim Bishr, said Zeidan was released after his captors were confronted by "revolutionaries" from the eastern Tripoli suburb of Suq Juma.
(6) Thanks to the selectivity of the captor, it is possible to produce magnetic plots of the thorax.
(7) In conclusion, our study suggests, first, to put AC filters upstream of Al captor to avoid Al intoxication, second, to systematically dose Al and may be other metallic substances in every manufactured AC sold for therapeutic purpose.
(8) Speaking before her release, Tebbutt told ITV News she had not been tortured by her captors but had been made to feel "as comfortable as possible".
(9) Above all, the way he responded to the brutality he had endured, his generosity towards his captors and his lack of desire for revenge against the wider white minority they had served established him as a kind of paragon.
(10) She was a meal ticket, and if her captors endangered her life, they endangered their pay-out.
(11) In particular, his mother, Fatima, was extraordinarily persistent.” The coroner said the main issues for the jury to consider after hearing all the evidence were likely to be whether Khan took his own life, was he forced by his captors to take his own life against his will, or was he unlawfully killed by his captors.
(12) Later it became a symbol of solidarity with his son and a way to connect with the captors.
(13) Nzinga Islam, Mobley’s wife, has said that Mobley told her his captors have forced him to drink water from bottles that had contained urine, part of what he described as ongoing torture.
(14) In Ethiopia, girls are abducted on their way to school, raped and then married to their captors; in Ghana, they are married to traditional priests and become "slaves to the gods" to pay for their family's sins; and in Cameroon, girls are promised in marriage to settle debts while still in the womb.
(15) The captors have not contacted their families, nor released any public statements, but Hakim still believes his brothers and cousin are alive.
(16) The government will soon remove legal aid from prisoners who claim that their captors have mistreated them.
(17) To make it stop, Slahi says he signed on to whatever his captors wanted him to voice.
(18) What comes across strongly in the book is that Judith wasn't cowed by her captors.
(19) As a colleague of Amburn's had reported him missing, the police took swift action, and at 4am officers stormed the house, freed him and arrested his captors.
(20) He was interviewed by three Iranian broadcasters, including Press TV, reading answers pre-prepared by his captors from a script.
Kidnapper
Definition:
(n.) One who steals or forcibly carries away a human being; a manstealer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Zeidan's office initially denied the abduction on Facebook but later stated the denial was made at the order of the kidnappers.
(2) Human interaction made captivity more tolerable, so she coaxed it out of her kidnappers where possible.
(3) For two decades, bandits and kidnappers have kept out the tourists who used to flock to the temple of the queen, while the desert hinterland has become a haven for jihadis and militants of various stripes.
(4) Downing Street believed it had secured an agreement last year during the UK's presidency of the G8 which meant the group's members would not pay ransoms to terrorist kidnappers.
(5) Although the Somalian government has no influence in the area where the Chandlers were held, some reports suggested it sent a high-ranking official to negotiate with the kidnappers.
(6) What seems certain – and troubling for Kenya – is that the Somali kidnappers have had help from local Kenyans, both in finding targets and in getting away through the narrow creeks of the Lamu archipelago.
(7) Later the kidnappers were described as "Chechen mercenaries" fighting with Jabhat al-Nusra, an extreme Islamist group that has links with al-Qaida.
(8) The story has dominated the Russian press, which has identified most of the kidnappers as ethnic Russians, and has even called in experts to identify the men from their criminal tattoos.
(9) Room Facebook Twitter Pinterest Emma Donaghue’s novel was never going to make for an easy film to watch, and yet despite the grim nature of the material – a mother and son confined by a kidnapper – Lenny Abrahamson’s adaptation managed to win over critics and audiences at Telluride, largely thanks to Brie Larson’s raw performance as a woman abducted and raped at a young age.
(10) While Attitude describes him as "tall and lithe and tanned with big brown eyes and a sexual charisma that envelops you like a kidnapper's sack over your head", the Daily Mail reckons Cooper is the "new Mr Darcy".
(11) She has not been seen since and her kidnappers have yet to make a ransom demand.
(12) The second day the military were moving towards the desert and they found two cars belonging to the kidnappers and they shot them, and they found a lot of storage under the ground with a lot of weapons and chemical weapons as well.
(13) At certain moments in the pursuit you start feeling for the poor kidnapper, as everything that could possibly go wrong is going wrong.
(14) As it happens, Edith auditioned for, and won, the part of Rooster, Annie's dastardly kidnapper – her traditionally male kidnapper.
(15) Her father begs his daughter's potential kidnapper: "If she's dead, please tell somebody where she is.
(16) One of his former teachers, a rich artist and a very old man, was recently kidnapped by shabiha who want 24m Syrian pounds (about £100,000) for his release; he hopes to hear from the kidnappers in the next day or two.
(17) He was held on his own for six weeks as his kidnappers tried to extract a ransom.
(18) "Mrs Dedieu's state of health, uncertainty over the conditions of her detention and the fact that the kidnappers probably refused to give her the medication that we sent her lead us to believe that this tragic outcome is unfortunately the most likely," the foreign ministry statement said.
(19) She and the other five survivors were taken to Palermo to testify against the alleged kidnapper and allowed to give evidence ahead of the trial, which isn't due to take place for months.
(20) Notable controversies in the 10-series history of Family Guy include a parody of Tom Cruise as a gay kidnapper, a determinedly insensitive treatment of the issue of domestic abuse, and a contested antisemitic version of the Disney song When You Wish Upon a Star from Pinocchio , which was never aired.