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Captive is a 2003 film that concerns itself with what happened to the children of the people killed after the 1970s military coup . The film states it was made with the support of Argentine National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts . Captive was ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "imprisoned, enslaved," from Latin captivus "caught, taken prisoner," from captus , past participle of capere "to take, hold, seize" (see capable ). As a noun from c.1400; an Old English noun was hæftling , from hæft "taken, seized."
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war [syn: prisoner ] an animal that is confined a person held in the grip of a strong emotion or passion
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Captive \Cap"tive\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Captived ; p. pr. & vb. n. Captiving .] To take prisoner; to capture. Their inhabitans slaughtered and captived. --Burke.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES hold sb prisoner/hostage/captive ▪ A senior army officer was held hostage for four months. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN audience ▪ Verbal, as opposed to written, reports give you more freedom to exploit your ...
Usage examples of captive.
It was not quite the same as being held captive in Abaddon, but it was not very different, either.
He fell in battle with a company of Abyssinian cavalry that held me captive.
One day he found among his latest batch of captives a young Acholi boy named Haradi, no more than ten years old, and decided to keep him as a personal servant rather than ship him across the ocean.
Great numbers of the Alani, appeased by the punctual discharge of the engagements which Aurelian had contracted with them, relinquished their booty and captives, and quietly retreated to their own deserts, beyond the Phasis.
Bullen first found himself in the water, then dragged from it into a canoe, and a moment later a helplessly bound captive at the mercy of an enraged foe.
Then while the Atabeg stood trembling and uncertain, at a loss for the first and only time of his whole wild career, du Courcey backed toward the door, holding his captive, who neither cried out nor struggled.
He was the son of Brunehild, whom the Austrasians had preserved after the murder of their king, and as a guardian for whom they had insisted on the return, by Chilperic, of the captive queen.
Prince Kayan, but if a Bactrian prince was offering a reward of a hundred prime horses to buy back a captive, it had to be he.
The questions posed to the prisoners--both the Bahraini group and the two sets of captives in Saudi Arabia--were pointed.
He went off with Baya, who looked back once over her shoulder as the men-at-arms moved in with leather thongs and began to bind the captives.
England had outlawed bearbaiting and the last captive bear had been ransomed.
For the past week in the 8-ball and experimental hives, McAllister had been conducting tests on the captive bees from Maryville to establish their capabilities.
He begs them, if he be taken, to return him whatever may be in his cell, but if he succeed he gives the whole to Francis Soradaci, who is still a captive for want of courage to escape, not like me preferring liberty to life.
Its hull, rugose with damage, bulged out on all sides past the considerable bulk of the captive bioresearch station.
A wandering tribe of the Blemmyes or Nubians invaded his solitary prison: in their retreat they dismissed a crowd of useless captives: but no sooner had Nestorius reached the banks of the Nile, than he would gladly have escaped from a Roman and orthodox city, to the milder servitude of the savages.