What is another word for kidnap?
Synonyms for kidnap
ˈkɪd næpkid·nap
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Princeton's WordNet
kidnap, nobble, abduct, snatchverb
take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom
"The industrialist's son was kidnapped"
Synonyms:
scam, hornswoggle, snatch up, cabbage, filch, con, rook, abduct, swindle, bunco, snarf, purloin, pinch, nobble, gyp, goldbrick, victimize, mulct, hook, lift, diddle, gip, short-change, snatch, swipe, defraud, pilfer, sneak, snap, abstract
Dictionary of English Synonymes
kidnapverb
Synonyms:
abduct (any human being), carry off, steal away, run off with
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
kidnapverb
Synonyms:
abduct
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "kidnap":
kidnapping, abduction, abduct, kidnapped, kidnaps, abducted, hijack, hijacking, kidnappings, abductions, snatch, remove
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1475 | abstract | |
#1651 | remove | |
#2529 | con | |
#4499 | lift | |
#5613 | hook | |
#7321 | snap | |
#11065 | scam | |
#16203 | sneak | |
#16326 | snatch | |
#16414 | cabbage | |
#17127 | pinch | |
#20111 | kidnapped | |
#23488 | kidnapping | |
#23786 | abduction | |
#28563 | hijack | |
#29140 | abducted | |
#35780 | rook | |
#36629 | hijacking | |
#37632 | kidnap | |
#38462 | swipe | |
#42454 | gip | |
#49972 | defraud | |
#57125 | abductions | |
#58296 | swindle | |
#65942 | kidnappings | |
#72473 | diddle | |
#87124 | abduct | |
#96993 | snarf | |
#113613 | kidnaps | |
#113787 | gyp | |
#138234 | bunco | |
#164852 | victimize | |
#176519 | filch | |
#199693 | pilfer |
How to use kidnap in a sentence?
They are not a government, they kidnap girls from schools.
Vallejo Police Lt. Kenny Park:
Ms. Huskins' whereabouts are unknown, and we are treating this matter as a kidnap for ransom, we're worried about Ms. Huskins' welfare. We don't know where she's at. And that's why we're coming to the public asking for their help.
The Taliban did not kidnap our Hazara brothers in the past, and we know they also fight this new group, Daish.
You know, the fact that after a plot to kidnap and to kill me, this is what they come out with. They start attacking me, opposed to what good, decent people would do is to check in and say,' Are you OK ?' Which is what Joe Biden did.
In the several months before they kidnapped Patty Hearst, two of their members were arrested and eventually convicted of murdering an Oakland school official, that set the table in the sense that these people were very capable of committing violence. Patty Hearst kidnap letter. ( Courtesy of Smithsonian Channel) And so Patty Hearst comes along and it was a very opportunistic way for them to put themselves on the front page of newspapers every day … They were certainly good at playing the media to their benefit back then.
Translations for kidnap
From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary
- خطف, خَطَفَArabic
- вы́красці, выкрада́цьBelarusian
- похищавамBulgarian
- segrestar, segrest, rapte, raptarCatalan, Valencian
- unést, únosCzech
- kidnappeDanish
- Menschenraub, entführen, Kinderraub, EntführungGerman
- απάγωGreek
- kidnapoEsperanto
- raptar, secuestrar, rapto, secuestroSpanish
- kidnapata, siepata, sieppaus, kidnappaus, kaapataFinnish
- kidnapping, enlèvement, ravir, kidnapperFrench
- fuadachIrish
- חטף, חטיפהHebrew
- अपहरण करनाHindi
- elrabol, emberrablás, embert rabolHungarian
- առեւա� գելArmenian
- sequestro, sequestrarInterlingua
- menculikIndonesian
- rapimento, sequestrare, sequestro, rapireItalian
- 攫う, 誘拐, 拉致Japanese
- ಅಪಹರಣKannada
- 납치, 拉致, 훔치다, 채가다Korean
- ڕفاندنKurdish
- kidnapLatin
- mautāhaeMāori
- ħatafMaltese
- ontvoeren, kidnappenDutch
- kidnappeNorwegian
- porwaćPolish
- sequestrar, sequestroPortuguese
- răpiRomanian
- вы́красть, выкра́дывать, похищение, укра́сть, похища́ть, сворова́ть, красть, похи́тить, ворова́тьRussian
- arpiàiSardinian
- oteti, otmicaSerbo-Croatian
- uniesťSlovak
- kidnappa, kidnappningSwedish
- teka nyaraSwahili
- kaçırmakTurkish
- ви́красти, викрада́тиUkrainian
- bắt cócVietnamese
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