Synonyms for kidnap
ˈkɪd næpkid·nap

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1. kidnap, nobble, abduct, snatchverb

   take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom

   "The industrialist's son was kidnapped"

   Synonyms:
   scam, hornswoggle, snatch up, cabbage, filch, con, rook, abduct, swindle, bunco, snarf, purloin, pinch, nobble, gyp, goldbrick, victimize, mulct, hook, lift, diddle, gip, short-change, snatch, swipe, defraud, pilfer, sneak, snap, abstract

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1. kidnapverb

   Synonyms:
   abduct (any human being), carry off, steal away, run off with

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1. kidnapverb

   Synonyms:
   abduct

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1. List of paraphrases for "kidnap":

   kidnapping, abduction, abduct, kidnapped, kidnaps, abducted, hijack, hijacking, kidnappings, abductions, snatch, remove

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1. Ahmad Zahid Hamidi:

   On Jan 30, 2015, there were plans by 13 people linked to Daesh (Islamic State) to kidnap the country's leaders including the prime minister, the home minister and the defense minister, there was also a plan to carry out an attack in Putrajaya. To this end, the group had prepared and tested explosives.

2. Miguel Cabrera:

   I am tired of hearing that they are going to kidnap my mother, and I don’t know whether it is a policeman or a bad guy, I don’t know who they are, all I know is if I don’t pay, those people disappear.

3. Sarah Huckabee Sanders:

   We are allowed to disagree, but we should be able to do so freely and without fear of harm, and this goes for all people regardless of politics. Some have chosen to push hate and vandalism against the restaurant that I was asked to leave from. A Hollywood actor publicly encouraged people to kidnap my children.

4. Tom Jennings:

   In the several months before they kidnapped Patty Hearst, two of their members were arrested and eventually convicted of murdering an Oakland school official, that set the table in the sense that these people were very capable of committing violence. Patty Hearst kidnap letter. ( Courtesy of Smithsonian Channel) And so Patty Hearst comes along and it was a very opportunistic way for them to put themselves on the front page of newspapers every day … They were certainly good at playing the media to their benefit back then.

5. Richard Trask:

   They discussed possible targets, taking a sitting governor, specifically governors of Michigan and Virginia, over shut down orders, the understanding at the time was to potentially kidnap a sitting governor and remove them from office.