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    KIDNAPPING

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    (law) the unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonmentplay

    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

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