kidnapping

n. abduction, act of stealing or taking a child or person by force

v. abduct, steal, take away by force (of a child or person)

Kidnapping, a word derived from kid, meaning child and nap (nab) meaning snatch, recorded since 1673, was originally used as a term for the practice of stealing children for use as servants or laborers in the American colonies. It has come to mean any illegal capture or detention of a person or people against their will, regardless of age. Since 1768 the term abduction was also used in this sense.
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Noun
1. (law) the unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment
(synonym) snatch
(hypernym) capture, seizure
(derivation) kidnap, nobble, abduct, snatch
(classification) law, jurisprudence

Verb
1. take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom; "The industrialist's son was kidnapped"
(synonym) nobble, abduct, snatch
(hypernym) seize
(hyponym) shanghai, impress
(derivation) kidnapper, abductor, snatcher
(classification) crime, law-breaking

n. kidnapping, act of stealing or taking a child or person by force