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Meanings of kidnaper in English

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Someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom)

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        Usage of kidnaper in English
        1
        It is the joint product of the kidnaper, pirate, thief, murderer, and hypocrite.
        The World's Great Sermons, Volume 10: Drummond to Jowett, and Ge...
        2
        She retreated-untilthe night-stick and the kidnaper knife were between her and the poke.
        The Poor Little Rich Girl
        3
        Lancelot succeeded in reaching the castle of Guinevere's kidnaper, whom he challenged and defeated.
        Legends of the Middle Ages / Narrated with Special Reference to ...
        4
        And yet I would have been a kidnaper, I suppose.
        Blacksheep! Blacksheep!
        5
        She declared she was thrifty, but neither a miser, nor a kidnaper, nor a witch.
        Welsh Fairy Tales
        6
        The kidnaper mopped the perspiration from his forehead.
        The Big-Town Round-Up
        7
        With skeptical smile the magistrate looks at that felonious, would-be kidnaper of a juvenile innocent, and asks for the boy.
        Oswald Langdon / or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1...
        8
        As Lass had made the journey from house to tracks with her head tucked confidingly under her kidnaper's arm, she had not noted the direction.
        Bruce
        9
        Whole county thinks he's a kidnaper or rapist or murderer or all three, but I remember he used to come in here buy comic books.
        Crooked letter, crooked letter
        10
        Well, she was holding Ariadne as close as though she was expecting kidnapers.
        The Squirrel-Cage
        11
        Boone tracked the kidnapers through the forest and rescued her.
        Daniel Boone / Taming the Wilds
        12
        These gangs were thieves, blackmailers, kidnapers of young girls for houses of prostitution, repeaters.
        Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
        13
        But I wonder how you'll use the ionization of air to protect yourself from kidnapers!
        The Pirates of Ersatz
        14
        The detection and suppression of kidnapers and kidnaping.
        Heathen Slaves and Christian Rulers
        15
        If the kidnapers got a busy signal when they called back, the whole thing might collapse.
        The wrong venus
        16
        Uncle John consulted with Judge Sands as to what was best to do about the kidnapers.
        Ethel Hollister's Second Summer as a Campfire Girl
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