Another word for kidnapped

kidnapped Synonyms

kidnapped

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abducted, held for ransom, taken hostage, seized, captured, made off with, transported, ravished, stolen, raped, carried away, carried off, shanghaied, waylaid, manhandled, kept under duress, held in durance vile, impressed, spirited away, held under illegal restraint, snatched*; see also captured 1.

Antonyms free*, rescued, released.

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My careful cross-referencing noted the same name listed as a wealthy grandfather of a kidnapped child who was returned after a strange tip was received.
They said you'd been kidnapped from the --
Her first thought was that he had kidnapped Kiera and was now returning to take her.
On Talleyrand now fell the disagreeable task of entertaining at his new mansion at Valencay, in Touraine, the Spanish princes virtually kidnapped at Bayonne by the emperor.
The nearness of Brazil to the coast of Africa made it easy for the Portuguese to supply the growing lack of native labour by the wholesale importation of purchased or kidnapped Africans.

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