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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.
In 1868 the reigning chief, Bib Doda, died, and his son and successor Prenk was detained as a hostage by the Turks.
He took some part in the political events of the time; in 994 he was a hostage in the hands of the Northmen, and he was not unfamiliar with the actualities of war.

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