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kidnapping

noun as in abduction

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The brothers, who fled violence in their country of origin, were kidnapped by human traffickers in Mexico in August.

He said he was kidnapped in Mexico and forced to cross into the United States.

According to press reports, the journalist shouted that she was being kidnapped as the car sped away, and later that day her body was found in the neighboring region of Ingushetia with gunshot wounds in her head and chest.

From Fortune

“Girl,” by Edna O’BrienThe author of the Country Girls trilogy was prompted by the 2014 Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping to write this unsparing account of a Nigerian teenager who escapes her captors.

Then two of her sons and husband were kidnapped and the family had to pay exorbitant ransoms.

Lalo said he reported the kidnapping to his ICE handlers, which was confirmed by a former federal agent familiar with the case.

Afraid the Korean secret police would not believe his kidnapping story, Shin settled in Hollywood.

More recently, Boko Haram shocked the world by kidnapping 276 female students and threatened to traffic them.

At the same time, we should expect a rise in kidnapping for ransom.

Rõivas called the kidnapping of a counterintelligence official a serious crime “unacceptable to any Estonian.”

Besides, when he hears it's for that real heroine of a kidnapping story everybody was talking about, he'll be willing enough.

You can terrify this woman with the thunders of the law if she persists in kidnapping children that don't belong to her.

As a matter of course, the talk jumped first to the mysterious hold-up and kidnapping and the reason why.

I told her I was, and then she came around to the kidnapping business again of her own accord.

They've asked me to work out that kidnapping case in New Orleans—the Loutois child.

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On this page you'll find 3 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to kidnapping, such as: seizure, and taking hostage.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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