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captive

adjective as in physically held by force

adjective as in mentally enchanted, held

noun as in person held physically

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Roxie was born in July, taking the number of captive red pandas at Edinburgh Zoo to four, and a fifth arrived in Scotland from Whipsnade zoo in October.

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The articles claimed that Yahya Sinwar was surrounded by a ring of around 20 hostages and that plans had been discovered to smuggle both the captives and the Hamas leader into Egypt.

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An armed group has taken control of a military facility near the Bolivian city of Cochabamba, the country's military says, and is holding some soldiers captive.

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A third man, Mohammed Emwazi, dubbed Jihadi John - who was believed to have featured in shocking videos of IS beheadings of a number of captives - was killed in a drone strike in 2015.

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He added that soil contamination is often underreported in Asia but "it is always worrying if multiple mortalities suddenly occur in captive animal populations where this has not happened before".

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

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