Captives Synonyms and Antonyms

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Synonyms for Captives

prisoners
A person incarcerated in a prison, while on trial or serving a sentence.
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slaves
A slave ant.
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hostages
A person given as a pledge, or taken prisoner as by an enemy or terrorist, until certain conditions are met
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Antonyms for Captives

jailers
One who enforces confinement in a jail or prison.
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guards
An honor guard.
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Captives Sentence Examples

  • With other captives, John Knox was put aboard a French galley.

  • The wretched captives were then chained and left in the court.

  • But the extension of properties in the hands of the patricians, and the continued absences of citizens required by the expanding system of conquest, necessarily brought with them a demand for slave labour, which was increasingly supplied by captives taken in war.

  • Caesar sold on a single occasion in Gaul 63,000 captives.

  • But the French had just before bombarded Algiers and Tripoli, even menacing Chios (Scio), where some pirates had put in with French captives; and the mediation of France was not very actively exercised.

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