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How to pronounce kidnaper in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms abductor, kidnapper, snatcher
Type of captor, capturer, criminal, crook, felon, malefactor, outlaw
Has types crimp, crimper, seizer, shanghaier
Derivation kidnap

Examples of kidnaper

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In all the cases reported last year, not a single kidnaper has been brought to trial.
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At 6 p.m., the pay phone rang and he was told by the kidnaper to go to a second station.
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The typical kidnaper, in fact, is one of the child's parents.
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Along a dark stretch of Sepulveda Boulevard, the kidnaper pulled over and got out to take the money.
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She was found unharmed, and her kidnaper was arrested the day after he had collected $500,000 in ransom.
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Dan Morgan is a convicted kidnaper with little hope of leaving the maximum security prison at Stillwater, Minn., until the mid-'90s.
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In 1932 its city editor, Henry Coit, was the first to report that Charles Lindbergh had paid a ransom to the kidnaper of his son.
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It had been delivered by Edgar Bronfman some 24 hours earlier in a nightmarish post-midnight rendezvous with a masked kidnaper.
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This sentiment was typified when we ran a cover on Caryl Chessman, the convicted kidnaper and sex offender who had become the center of a major legal dispute over capital punishment.
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More examples
  • Kidnapper: someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom)
  • In criminal law, kidnapping is the taking away or transportation of a person against the person's will, usually to hold the person in false imprisonment, a confinement without legal authority. ...
  • Alternative spelling of kidnapper