Meaning

1 senses

  1. To seize or detain a person unlawfully and move or conceal them; sometimes for ransom.

    entführen

    похища́тьpoxiščátʹ, похи́титьpoxítitʹ, крастьkrastʹ

    викрада́тиvykradáty, ви́крастиvýkrasty

More definitions
  • take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom

Examples

244 sentences

  1. Tom has been kidnapped by terrorists.

    Тома викрали терористи. — deniko

    ruТома похитили террористы. — odexed

    deTom wurde von Terroristen entführt. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  2. Did you know that Tom was kidnapped when he was three?

    Ти знав, що Тома викрали, коли йому було три роки? — deniko

    ruТы знал, что Тома похитили, когда ему было три? — sharptoothed

    deWusstest du, dass Tom mit drei Jahren entführt wurde? — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  3. Tom didn't kidnap Mary.

    Том не викрадав Мері. — deniko

    ruТом не похищал Мэри. — marafon

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  4. Tom has been kidnapped.

    Тома викрали. — deniko

    ruТома похитили. — averoes

    deTom wurde entführt. — fleur74

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  5. I've been kidnapped before.

    Мене вже викрадали раніше. — deniko

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to seize and detain a person unlawfully:
Русский
By meaning 1
to seize and detain a person unlawfully:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to seize and detain a person unlawfully:

Origin

From kid + nap (“to nab; to grab”). Originally Thieves' cant, referring to the practice of

From kid + nap (“to nab; to grab”). Originally Thieves' cant, referring to the practice of stealing children and shipping them to colonies or plantations as laborers. First attested c. 1680.

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Forms

kidnaps, kidnapping, kidnapped, kidnapped
Base formkidnap · to kidnap
3rd person singularkidnaps
Present participlekidnapping
Past simplekidnapped
Past participlekidnapped

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theykidnap
he, she, itkidnaps

Past simpleLesson

all personskidnapped

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave kidnapped
he, she, ithas kidnapped

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill kidnap

Synonyms

4 synonyms
informalB2snatch
Close in meaning
  • take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom:nobbleabductsnatch

Word family

10 related words
Relatedkidnapperkidnappingkidnaper
Derivedantikidnapdognapdognappingkidnappablerekidnaptiger kidnapunkidnap

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

Collocations

3 patterns
  • has been kidnapped
  • was kidnapped when
  • got kidnapped

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
kidA1kiddiekiddokidnapperkidnappingkidneykielbasa
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