kidnap

[kid·nap]

To kidnap is to steal a person, or to hold someone as a prisoner until a ransom is paid. Nervous parents might worry that someone will kidnap their children, and not let them play outside alone.

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To take (any one) by force or fear, and against one's will, with intent to carry to another place.

Verb
take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom; "The industrialist''s son was kidnapped"


v. t.
To take (any one) by force or fear, and against one's will, with intent to carry to another place.


Kidnap

Kid"nap` , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Kidnaped or Kidnapped; p. pr. & vb. n. Kidnaping or Kidnapping.] [Kid a child + Prov. E. nap to seize, to grasp. Cf. Knab, Knap, Nab.] To take (any one) by force or fear, and against one's will, with intent to carry to another place. Abbott.
You may reason or expostulate with the parents, but never attempt to kidnap their children, and to make proselytes of them.
&hand; Originally used only of stealing children, but now extended in application to any human being, involuntarily abducted.

To take (any one) by force or fear, and against one's will, with intent to carry to another place.

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