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kidnap

/kid-nap/US // ˈkɪd næp //UK // (ˈkɪdnæp) //

劫持,绑架,拐骗,绑票

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    kid·napped or kid·naped, kid·nap·ping or kid·nap·ing.

    • : to steal, carry off, or abduct by force or fraud, especially for use as a hostage or to extract ransom.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbabduct; hold for ransom
Forms: kidnapped, kidnapping

Examples

  • So, it is disequilibrium behavior — as long as everyone pays, there is no need to kidnap anybody.

  • Face recognition, used with careful limitations, could help identify children who’ve been kidnapped or trafficked.

  • Cut through zip tiesImagine you’ve been kidnapped and bound with zip ties!

  • Concerned she’d been kidnapped, people across Mexico mobilized to find her.

  • Days later, seven-year-old Fátima Aldrighett – kidnapped while waiting for her mother to pick her up from school – was found naked in a plastic bag.

  • As long as there are states willing to negotiate payments with groups like ISIS, there will be a financial incentive to kidnap.

  • This matters for trafficking because it costs a lot to kidnap someone and hold her against her will.

  • This man was taken from Libya and it is not legal to kidnap people from Libya.

  • As a result, Bo sent several hundred armed police to surround the U.S. Consulate, attempting to kidnap Wang.

  • The CIA, he says, could “render” (i.e., kidnap) him at any time, which is highly unlikely but not symptomatic of the paranoid.

  • Most exquisite Chiffinch, thou art turned micher as well as padder—Canst both rob a man and kidnap him!

  • As the sergeant departed he warned Mr. Traill, laughingly, that he meant to kidnap Bobby the very first chance he got.

  • Two gentlemen of this city were eminently, but secretly, active in their attempt to kidnap their victim.

  • Mr. Traill fixed an accusing eye on the soldier, remembering suddenly his laughing threat to kidnap Bobby.

  • The Federal Judges sought to kidnap the citizens of Boston and to punish all such as opposed man-stealing.