Synonyms for kidnap
ˈkɪd næpkid·nap

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1. 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

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1. kidnapverb

   Synonyms:
   abduct (any human being), carry off, steal away, run off with

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1. kidnapverb

   Synonyms:
   abduct

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1. List of paraphrases for "kidnap":

   kidnapping, abduction, abduct, kidnapped, kidnaps, abducted, hijack, hijacking, kidnappings, abductions, snatch, remove

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1. Tom Jennings:

   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.

2. John Agim:

   They are not a government, they kidnap girls from schools.

3. Dana Nessel:

   The individuals in( state) custody are suspected to have attempted to identify the home addresses of law enforcement officers in order to target them, made threats of violence intended to instigate a civil war, and engaged in planning and training for an operation to attack the capitol building of Michigan and to kidnap government officials, including the governor of Michigan.

4. Ivan Adamovich:

   Banking secrecy, in my view in times of Facebook and data all around the world, is going to be more important than before and not less important, if you know how much money somebody has, you also know how much you would get if you kidnap him.

5. Jarod Kintz:

   More people are leaving TV behind to read my books than ever before. In the last year alone I gained over two readers (three, to be exact). So I’d like to take a moment and say thanks mom, dad, and kidnap victim I keep chained in the basement