Synonyms for kidnapping
kid·nap·ping

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1. kidnapping, snatchnoun

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

   Synonyms:
   snatch, puss, bit, slit, pussy, grab, snap, twat, cunt, catch

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1. • Capture
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1. kidnappingnoun

   Synonyms:
   man-stealing, abduction

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1. kidnappingnoun

   Synonyms:
   abduction

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1. List of paraphrases for "kidnapping":

   abduction, kidnap, kidnapped, abductions, hijacking, abducted, removal, sequestration, hijack, abducting, kidnappings, snatch, abduct

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1. Survivor Jennifer Brown Hyde:

   The earliest recollection I have of them just soon after the kidnapping was that the kidnappers would line us all up, put an apple on our head and shoot and miss the apple and shoot me in the head, i would see my own funeral.

2. President Juan Manuel Santos:

   It's inconceivable that this group, instead of giving concrete displays of peace, insists on kidnapping and attacking the infrastructure of Colombians, like it did today with another pipeline bombing, causing immense harm to the environment.

3. Gretchen Whitmer:

   They weren’t planning to ransom me, they weren’t going to keep me, they were planning to assassinate me. And the plot has been covered as a kidnapping plot, there was one person who showed up on, you know, on a Supreme Court justice’s lawn and turned himself in, and it was covered as an assassination attempt. And so I think that when you look at the facts of both of those, and you see how differently they’re covered, I do, you know, have concern about the language that we use, especially when women are a target as opposed to men.

4. Mohamad Mat Yusop:

   For the time being, there was no element of abduction or kidnapping.

5. Kunal Cheema:

   To prevent the infringement of the fundamental right to life of millions of Indian children, who have become amenable to kidnapping or abandonment, a thorough impartial CBI probe is required.