Crossword clues for kidnap
kidnap
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kidnap \Kid"nap`\ (k[i^]d"n[a^]p`), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Kidnaped (k[i^]d"n[a^]pt`) or Kidnapped; p. pr. & vb. n.
Kidnaping or Kidnapping.] [Kid a child + Prov. E. nap to
seize, to grasp. Cf. Knab, Knap, Nab.]
To take (any one) by force or fear, and against one's will,
with intent to carry to another place.
--Abbott.
You may reason or expostulate with the parents, but
never attempt to kidnap their children, and to make
proselytes of them.
--Whately.
Note: Originally used only of stealing children, but now extended in application to any human being, involuntarily abducted.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. An instance of kidnapping. vb. (context transitive English) To seize and detain a person unlawfully; sometimes for ransom.
WordNet
v. take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom; "The industrialist's son was kidnapped" [syn: nobble, abduct, snatch]
[also: kidnapping, kidnapped]
Wikipedia
Kidnap is a 2008 Indian crime thriller film starring Sanjay Dutt, Imran Khan, Minissha Lamba and Vidya Malvade. The film is directed by Sanjay Gadhvi, who earlier directed the hit films Dhoom (2004) and Dhoom 2 (2006).
Kidnap is a 1974 Italian poliziottesco film. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti.
Kidnap is an upcoming action thriller film directed by Luis Prieto and written by Knate Gwaltney. The film stars Halle Berry, Sage Correa, Lew Temple and Chris McGinn. The film is about a mother who tries to find her abducted son. The film's development began in June 2009 and filming began on October 27, 2014 in New Orleans. Relativity Media will release the film on December 2, 2016 in the United States.
Usage examples of "kidnap".
Steele had dinner with an Arcadian male the night before he was kidnapped.
Somebody might try to kidnap Beeker and use the Port-a-Brain to tap into my stock portfolio, for example-we do have a lot of sensitive data on them.
She was an Olympic biathlete, and they kidnapped her and tried to make her, like, tote their water and all.
Along with Baybrock, Sanders, Jenney and Demble, Bleer would be a fine plum for the kidnap pudding that Thumb Gaudrey intended to cook.
This bland, slick, talkative bookseller, was he arranging some blackmailing scheme to kidnap the girl and wring blood-money out of her father?
Stories of girls drugged and even kidnapped, and brought further afield, to the bordels of Bruce and An-twerpen.
Herrac, here, was setting out to kidnap an envoy and a chest of gold belonging to the King of Scotland, without even having bothered to check with his fellow Borderers, to see if they would help in the battle that was planned to result from the kidnapping.
Lugg opened his mouth to speak, but Byrt launched into a complicated tale of thievery and kidnapping on the high seas.
Green Party leader, and the kidnapping and murder of Dammar Hammecher, granddaughter of the German federal court judge Ernst Hammecher.
The reason the dasht is so sore is that I busted up his attempt to have the Lady Fouri kidnaped by his gang of tame bandits.
Sardinia, maybe, or short of beans in Mexico, a little kidnap makes effing sense.
His visitor, on entering his rooms, had drawn a life-preserver from his sleeve, and had so impressed him with the fear of instant and inevitable death that he had kidnapped him for the second time.
Your Facer buddies were probably the ones that gassed and kidnapped us.
But I let her tow me like a balloon on a string, out the door and down corridors filled with kidnapped corpgeeks handcuffed to Facers in red robes.
Truth is, Phips was anxious that Gering should have no chance of objecting to the scoundrel who had, years before, tried to kidnap his now affianced wife--who had escaped a deserved death on the gallows.