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hostage

security, guaranty, captive, prisoner, pawn, scapegoat, victim of a kidnapping, sacrificial victim; see also pledge. See syn. study at pledge.

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He.s taken a human hostage, and we need to know where she is.
"She's safe, I think. Darkyn wants her as a hostage, just in case," Ully whispered.
If that was what they thought, they'd hold his family hostage in the immortal world.
Left Rome for the conquest of Naples (January 2 5, 1 495), Cesare accompanied him as a hostage for the pope's good behaviour, but he escaped at Velletri and returned to Rome.
Tell everyone I said hello and I'm being held hostage by one of the Others.

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