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captor
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Mann was finally freed by his captors. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ An extension of this may occur when the victim actually, becomes a supporter or advocate of her captor . ▪ Hostages are said to develop similarly complex attachments ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 One who is holding a captive or captives. 2 One who catches or has caught or captured something or someone.
Usage examples of captor.
The mere fact that his captors saw no need to restrain him sent an insulting message: Now they considered the Adar of the Solar Navy to be no threat at all.
Taller than their Roman captors, Drax and Bailli, Soteric and Turgot were easy to recognize in the center of the column.
Zora realized that there was little likelihood that they would be mistreated by their captors, it being evident to her that the sheykh was impressed with the belief that the better the condition in which they could be presented to their prospective purchaser the more handsome the return that Abu Batn might hope to receive.
The surveillance over the two prisoners had somewhat relaxed, due largely to the belief entertained by Abu Batn that the women would not dare to invite the perils of the jungle by attempting to escape from captors who were, at the same time, their protectors from even greater dangers.
Not a supernaturally revived corpse, but a sort of combined kidnap and poisoning victim, released or abandoned by her captor, her bocor, after three decades.
She nervously watched the byplay among her captors, gripping her opposite shoulders with her well-formed hands.
His captors evidently had not discovered that he was a human counterspy, or they would have destroyed him out of hand.
The Fitzhugh had acquiesced too easily, and now he studied her as one would a wild beast that might turn upon its captor at any moment.
It proved to be the harem of the Governor of Hamadan, and if for a moment the too sanguine fancy of the captor experienced a passing pang of disappointment, the prize at least obtained, as we have seen, the freedom and security of his dear though distant friends.
It occurred to Clare now that if her captor had been the Hellhound, she likely would not have escaped.
Large were these males, dark of hair and skin as Ceralt and Lialt, and also clad as they, in leathers and belts of silver, yet none others seemed to have the light eyes of my captors.
For this reason, the Lubavitcher Rebbe prescribed observing the commandments as a means of liberating the divine sparks from their captors, the material husks which enclose all animal, vegetable, and mineral life.
If only he could get clear of his captors, John Macnab would have won two out of the three events.
But there was no relief, only tumult, until Maillard, a patriot agitator, conspicuous as one of the captors of the Bastille and since, harangued them.
Mistress Mym any longer, even if she is able to cope with her captors.