(v. t.) To take (any one) by force or fear, and against one's will, with intent to carry to another place.
Example Sentences:
(1) In early 2000, during the first months of Vladimir Putin’s presidency, Babitsky was kidnapped by Russian forces and disappeared for many weeks.
(2) But with a civil war raging and no one to protect them, most migrants are at risk of kidnap, extortion and forced labour.
(3) The kidnappings triggered worldwide protests and military assistance from western governments, but 219 girls are still missing.
(4) The killing took place shortly after three Jewish youths, who had been kidnapped in the West Bank, were found murdered near Hebron.
(5) As the gangs fragmented, many increasingly focused on extortion, kidnapping and human trafficking.
(6) The Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu , has vowed the militant Islamist group Hamas, blamed by Israel for the kidnapping, will "pay a heavy price".
(7) Blindfolding the American hostages, Asgharzadeh later admitted, was their first mistake – it immediately turned an occupying campaign into what looked like deliberate kidnapping.
(8) The diplomatic bag must only contain articles for official use (not kidnapped opposition politicians ), and the collection of information can only be carried out by "lawful means" (not by bugging the state department ).
(9) The country’s vice president, Yemi Osinbajo, was due to visit Chibok for the anniversary, said Yakubu Nkeki, the leader of a support group of parents of the kidnapped girls.
(10) Some Coalition MPs raised concerns earlier this year that transparency could expose wealthy business owners to security risks, including kidnapping , and the government prepared legislation to shield private Australian companies.
(11) We are in a hotel in Mobile, Alabama, a small town on the Gulf Coast where he and Danny Glover are filming an action movie called Tokarev , in which Cage plays a reformed mobster reluctantly returning to his violent roots when his daughter is kidnapped.
(12) He was charged with a range of offences including rape, murder, kidnapping, destruction of evidence, banditry and criminal conspiracy.
(13) I was chained up in a very painful position and had no means to know where I was, or even whether my pregnant wife – who had been kidnapped at the same time – was with me."
(14) And with the cartels come other nightmares: kidnapping, extortion, contract killers and people trafficking.
(15) One of the minors claimed he had remained in the car during the killing and did not know that the kidnapping would end in murder.
(16) Nigeria is “inching closer” to securing the release of 219 schoolgirls kidnapped six months ago, despite fears that reports of a ceasefire with the Islamist militant group Boko Haram have not come to fruition.
(17) Syrian TV said a jet crashed due to technical problems • A pro-government Syrian TV station says one of its cameramen who was kidnapped three days ago is believed to be dead while the others are being held by rebels near the capital Damascus.
(18) The Farc negotiators reiterated their insistence that the rebel leader Simon Trinidad, who is serving a 60-year sentence in a US prison after being convicted of kidnapping three Americans, be allowed to participate as a negotiator.
(19) Any application for special mission status is considered on its overall merits and may be accepted or refused on legal or policy grounds.” Lord Macdonald, the former director of public prosecutions who is acting for Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood as well as the FJP, said: “There is strong evidence [Sisi] is guilty of serious and very public crimes, including the mass shooting of demonstrators, forced disappearances, kidnappings, torture, the organisation of farcical trials involving mass sentences of death.
(20) Alone in his police cell, Yarris read a newspaper article about the rape and murder of Linda May Craig, who had been kidnapped in Delaware near the border of Pennsylvania.
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.