HOW TO PRONOUNCE
kidnap
/ˈkɪdˌnæp/
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What does kidnap mean?
verb
- To seize or detain a person unlawfully and move or conceal them; sometimes for ransom.
noun
- The crime, or an instance, of kidnapping.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈkɪdˌnæp/
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“Captain,” said Smee, “could we not kidnap these boys’ mother and make her our mother?”
This bland, slick, talkative bookseller, was he arranging some blackmailing scheme to kidnap the girl and wring blood-money out of her father?
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They discuss plot to kidnap Princess, which is overheard by DOCTOR.
At the instigation of the Earl of Montrose, a desperate man who was then in prison for plotting, he tried to kidnap three Scottish lords who escaped.
Macgowan says the traders kidnap a boy and skin him alive bit by bit, transplanting on the denuded surfaces the hide of a bear or dog.