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kidnap

verb

🔊/ˈkɪdnæp/

🔊/ˈkɪdnæp/

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they kidnap	🔊/ˈkɪdnæp/ 🔊/ˈkɪdnæp/
he / she / it kidnaps	🔊/ˈkɪdnæps/ 🔊/ˈkɪdnæps/
past simple kidnapped	🔊/ˈkɪdnæpt/ 🔊/ˈkɪdnæpt/
past participle kidnapped	🔊/ˈkɪdnæpt/ 🔊/ˈkɪdnæpt/
(US English also) past simple kidnaped	🔊/ˈkɪdnæpt/ 🔊/ˈkɪdnæpt/
(US English also) past participle kidnaped	🔊/ˈkɪdnæpt/ 🔊/ˈkɪdnæpt/
-ing form kidnapping	🔊/ˈkɪdnæpɪŋ/ 🔊/ˈkɪdnæpɪŋ/
(US English also) -ing form kidnaping	🔊/ˈkɪdnæpɪŋ/ 🔊/ˈkɪdnæpɪŋ/

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kidnap somebody to take somebody away illegally and keep them as a prisoner, especially in order to get money or something else for returning them劫持；绑架 synonym abduct, seize
- Two businessmen have been kidnapped by terrorists.两名商人遭恐怖分子绑架。🔊🔊
- The terrorists were planning to kidnap one of the president’s sons.恐怖分子正计划绑架总统的一个儿子。
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Topics Crime and punishmentc1
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
Kidnap is used with these nouns as the subject:
alien
Kidnap is used with these nouns as the object:
child
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Word Originlate 17th cent.: back-formation from kidnapper, from kid ‘child’ + slang nap ‘nab, seize’.