Captor Synonyms and Antonyms

kăptər, -tôr
A person who captures and holds people or animals
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. capturer
Antonyms:
  1. liberator

Words Related to Captor

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Captor Sentence Examples

  • Though treated with some deference by his captor, who even promised to reinstate him.

  • We were sealed from our captor!

  • A slave often ran away; if caught, the captor was bound to restore him to his master, and the Code fixes a reward of two shekels which the owner must pay the captor.

  • The finest parts of the epic are those in which Gudrun, a prisoner in the Norman castle, refuses to become the wife of her captor, and is condemned to do the most menial work of the household.

  • But if his captor held him fast the god at last returned to his proper shape, gave the wished-for answer, and then plunged into the sea.

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