The word "kidnap" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to the taking of a person by force or against their will. Example sentence: The criminals attempted to kidnap the young woman in the middle of the night.
But the ex-dictator, Arius, sends his hoodlums to kidnap Matrix's daughter in order to blackmail him into (singlehandedly) deposing the current president of Val Verde.
Now, 10 years on, senior officers have visited Full Sutton prison in York, to question Brian Lunn Field, a violent paedophile serving life for the kidnap and murder of 14-year-old Roy Tutill in Surrey in 1968.
A month after the Chibok kidnap, a video was released by Boko Haram, showing about 130 girls wearing Islamic dress.
Christopher Guest More Wanted over the kidnap and murder of Brian Waters at Burnt House Farm, Tabley, Cheshire, in July 2003.
Colombia's military fanned out through the jungles of the country's north-west on Monday in the hunt for a general whose kidnap by presumed leftist Farc rebels has put two years of peace talks in limbo.
It would be equally nice if the media didn't portray unmarried men as naughty schoolboys, terrified of those crazed women lurking around every corner waiting to kidnap them and take them to the altar.
Eleven serious offences, including manslaughter, kidnap and arson with intent to endanger life, were committed in England and Wales by offenders freed from jail but supposedly subject to the most rigorous level of monitoring by police, probation officers, social services and other agencies.
Suicide bombings in recent months by young girls has raised fears that Boko Haram is using the kidnap victims in its conflict, which has displaced more than 1 million people and killed about 10,000 in the last year, according to the Council on Foreign Relations.
"They are, you understand, under threat of kidnap in some countries".
"I want to have the opportunity to kidnap a woman, hostage her, put her in my basement and rape her every day, listen to her crying, watching her tears," it read.
Jonathan, on the other hand, couldn't escape the fact that Boko Haram had grown in strength during his five years as president, or that he had failed to react swiftly to the kidnap of 276 girls from Chibok, most of whom are still missing.
