kidnapping
noun/ˈkɪdnæpɪŋ/
1
The crime of taking a person against their will, sometimes for ransom.
- The Kiryat Malachi native, who had been working as a bartender in Tel Aviv before his kidnapping, was last seen trying to hide next to a car as a terrorist fired a rocket-propelled grenade at him and a friend.2025 March 7, ToI staff, JTA, “The next 24: These are the remaining hostages presumed alive in Gaza”, in The Times of Israel, archived from the original on 03 Aug 2025:
- Derived terms
- antikidnapping, bridenapping, carnapping, catnapping, dognapping, express kidnapping, gnome-napping, slavenapping, tiger kidnapping
- Related terms
- abduction