kidnap
verbVerb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they kidnap | |
he / she / it kidnaps | |
past simple kidnapped | |
past participle kidnapped | |
(US English also) past simple kidnaped | |
(US English also) past participle kidnaped | |
-ing form kidnapping | |
(US English also) -ing form kidnaping |
- 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 synonym abduct, seize劫持;绑架 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. 恐怖分子计划绑架总统的一个儿子。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryKidnap is used with these nouns as the subject:- alien
- child
Word Originlate 17th cent.: back-formation from kidnapper, from kid ‘child’ + slang nap ‘nab, seize’.