Kidnapping Synonyms and Antonyms

(law) the unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. abduction
  2. seizure
  3. snatch
  4. taking hostage
  5. baby-snatching
Take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. snatching
  2. grabbing
  3. capturing
  4. abducting
  5. pirating
  6. impressing
  7. hijacking
  8. removing
  9. waylaying
  10. raping
  11. stealing
  12. ravishing
Antonyms:
  1. releasing
  2. rescuing
  3. ransoming

Words Related to Kidnapping

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Kidnapping Sentence Examples

  • Our major success was our first kidnapping for ransom.

  • We can't go back to the kidnapping or the recovery.

  • It was now more than seventy-two hours after the kidnapping.

  • The use of this writ in most if not all criminal cases was forbidden in 1553; but it was used in the 17th century in a case of kidnapping (Designy's case, 1682), and against Lord Grey for abducting his wife's sister (1682), and in the earl of Banbury's case to recover his wife (1704).

  • Kidnapping, involuntary resurrection—these were not the foundations on which trust was built!

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