The kidnapper told me he'd kill Tom if I didn't show up alone.
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Kidnapper
//ˈkɪdnæpɚ//
Synonyms for "kidnapper" (5 found)
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Translations
76 translations across 39 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- مُخْتَطِف noun (one who performs kidnap)
Belarusian
2 entries- выкрада́льнік noun (one who performs kidnap)
- выкрада́льніца noun (one who performs kidnap)
Bulgarian
2 entries- похити́тел noun (one who performs kidnap)
- похити́телка noun (one who performs kidnap)
Catalan
1 entries- segrestador noun (one who performs kidnap)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 拐子佬 noun (one who performs kidnap)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 劫持者 noun (one who performs kidnap)
- 綁架者 /绑架者 noun (one who performs kidnap)
- 誘拐者 /诱拐者 noun (one who performs kidnap)
Czech
2 entries- únosce noun (one who performs kidnap)
- únoskyně noun (one who performs kidnap)
Danish
2 entries- bortfører noun (one who performs kidnap)
- kidnapper noun (one who performs kidnap)
Dutch
3 entries- kidnapper noun (one who performs kidnap)
- ontvoerder noun (one who performs kidnap)
- schaker noun (one who performs kidnap)
Estonian
1 entries- inimröövija noun (one who performs kidnap)
Finnish
2 entries- kidnappaaja noun (one who performs kidnap)
- sieppaaja noun (one who performs kidnap)
French
4 entries- kidnappeur noun (one who performs kidnap)
- kidnappeuse noun (one who performs kidnap)
- ravisseur noun (one who performs kidnap)
- ravisseuse noun (one who performs kidnap)
Galician
1 entries- secuestrador noun (one who performs kidnap)
Georgian
2 entries- გამტაცებელი noun (one who performs kidnap)
- მომტაცებელი noun (one who performs kidnap)
German
2 entries- Entführer noun (one who performs kidnap)
- Entführerin noun (one who performs kidnap)
Greek
1 entries- απαγωγέας noun (one who performs kidnap)
Hindi
2 entries- अपहरणकर्ता noun (one who performs kidnap)
- अपहर्ता noun (one who performs kidnap)
Hungarian
2 entries- emberrabló noun (one who performs kidnap)
- gyermekrabló noun (one who performs kidnap)
Icelandic
1 entries- mannræningi noun (one who performs kidnap)
Italian
2 entries- rapitore noun (one who performs kidnap)
- rapitrice noun (one who performs kidnap)
Japanese
1 entries- 誘拐犯 noun (one who performs kidnap)
Korean
3 entries- 납치범 noun (one who performs kidnap)
- 랍치범 noun (one who performs kidnap)
- 유괴범 noun (one who performs kidnap)
Latin
2 entries- plagiāria noun (one who performs kidnap)
- plagiārius noun (one who performs kidnap)
Macedonian
4 entries- грабнувач noun (one who performs kidnap)
- грабнувачка noun (one who performs kidnap)
- киднапе́р noun (one who performs kidnap)
- киднапе́рка noun (one who performs kidnap)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- barnenapper noun (one who performs kidnap)
- barnerøver noun (one who performs kidnap)
- kidnapper noun (one who performs kidnap)
- kidnapperske noun (one who performs kidnap)
Old English
1 entries- manþēof noun (one who performs kidnap)
Polish
4 entries- porywacz noun (one who performs kidnap)
- porywaczka noun (one who performs kidnap)
- uprowadziciel noun (one who performs kidnap)
- uprowadzicielka noun (one who performs kidnap)
Portuguese
1 entries- sequestrador noun (one who performs kidnap)
Romanian
2 entries- răpitoare noun (one who performs kidnap)
- răpitor noun (one who performs kidnap)
Russian
2 entries- похити́тель noun (one who performs kidnap)
- похити́тельница noun (one who performs kidnap)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- ljudokradica noun (one who performs kidnap)
- òtmičār noun (one who performs kidnap)
Slovak
2 entries- únosca noun (one who performs kidnap)
- únoskyňa noun (one who performs kidnap)
Slovene
2 entries- ugrabitelj noun (one who performs kidnap)
- ugrabiteljica noun (one who performs kidnap)
Spanish
3 entries- captor noun (one who performs kidnap)
- raptor noun (one who performs kidnap)
- secuestrador noun (one who performs kidnap)
Swahili
1 entries- mtekaji nyara noun (one who performs kidnap)
Swedish
1 entries- kidnappare noun (one who performs kidnap)
Turkish
1 entries- çocuk hırsızı noun (one who performs kidnap)
Ukrainian
2 entries- викрада́ч noun (one who performs kidnap)
- викрада́чка noun (one who performs kidnap)
Yoruba
1 entries- gbọ́mọgbọ́mọ noun (one who performs kidnap)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
Police arrested the kidnapper.
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I hope they catch the kidnapper.
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What does the kidnapper look like?
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