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KIDNAPPING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(law) the unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment
Synonyms:
kidnapping; snatch
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("kidnapping" is a kind of...):
capture; seizure (the act of taking of a person by force)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Derivation:
kidnap (take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb kidnap
