KIDNAPPING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

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

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)

-ing form of the verb kidnap