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.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context US English) (en-past of: kidnap) 2 (context US English) (alternative spelling of kidnapped English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "kidnaped".
Sure, they'd like to kidnap my daughters, almost as much as my daughters would like to be kidnaped by them.
Not for the first time, he found himself silently blessing his kidnaped daughters.
Lord Worth was all that a doting parent reunited with his kidnaped children should have been, but his effusiveness was kept well under control.
The fact that there was a mystery underfoot, and that a man had just been kidnaped downstairs, had not kept him from flinging a dig at Ham.
We’re going to be kidnaped, and we’re supposed to learn all we can from our captors.
Velvet and Biff didn’t get the messages, so they kidnaped their boss by mistake.
Frank in turn brought Chet up to date on the mystery of the kidnaped doctor, the clue of the humming traffic light, and how Mrs.
They were afraid Miss Johnson had been kidnaped by the thief in order to take care of Lenny Stryker!
We probably have the fingerprints of the person who kidnaped Miss Johnson.
She found herself in the position of thousands of other parents whose ex-spouses had kidnaped their children.
There it was, right in front of him, all the information he needed to find a kidnaped little boy.
This would explain why he was chosen, and kidnaped, instead of Brother Joseph using one of the other kids who were already in the cult.
He kidnaped Jamie away from his mother, and I think he gave Jamie to Brother Joseph.