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Kidnaper

Kidnaper \Kid"nap`er\ (k[i^]d"n[a^]p`[~e]r), or Kidnapper \Kid"nap`per\, n. One who steals or forcibly carries away a human being; a manstealer.

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kidnaper

n. (alternative spelling of kidnapper English)

Usage examples of "kidnaper".

General al Hez will be welcomed by the world as a fearless warrior who avenged the deaths by finding and punishing the kidnapers and deposing the sultan, who will of course die attempting to escape.

The father would want to pay the kidnapers, and to keep Donnelly out of it.

Around seven-thirty yesterday morning her husband phoned her from their place in the country and said the kidnapers had let him go in one piece and he would come to town as soon as he cleaned up and ate.

My mother told me that if I can find the money she paid the kidnapers, or any part of it, I can have it.

Therefore at least one of the kidnapers was someone with whom she had had contacts, and I would want to learn all I could about her.

The theory was that the kidnapers had taken the Thunderbird and kept it wherever they had kept him, and, when they turned him loose, had let him have it to drive home in, which was a perfectly good theory, since they certainly wouldn't want to use it.

If Miss Utley was involved, at least one of the kidnapers is someone she knew, and therefore I want information about her friends and acquaintances.

I hardly think the kidnapers would have taken any commercial domestic flight.

The kidnapers guessed we'd be Using dogsā€”it wasn't all that hard a guess.

He has been forcibly abducted, almost certainly by some of the kidnapers of Lord Worth's daughters.

Of course, Calhoun insisted stubbornly, the kidnapers would trade on the supposed fact that the police had no description of them.

The kidnapers, of course, would want the father to accept almost any conditions for the ransom.

Of course the kidnapers must suppose that they could move around in here like invisible men.

It meant that a genuine notice had been obtained from another booth by one of the kidnapers, and placed here.

Did the lodge conceal dangerous smugglers-or the kidnapers of a prince?