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The correct spelling is “kidnapped.” You can use it when you need to describe when someone has been abducted, usually against their will, by force or threat of force.
For example: The kidnappers held the victim hostage for several days before releasing her.
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kidnaped
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Past of kidnap
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Terry Anderson (1985 91), Terry Waite (1987 91), and Thomas Sutherland (1985 91), all of whom had been kidnaped by Islamist militants in Lebanon, claimed that they had been treated well by their captors, despite the fact that they had often been held in solitary confinement and chained up in small, unclean cells.
At least 89 children, some as young as 13, have been kidnaped by an armed militia in South Sudan as they sat their exams, Unicef reported today.
He sent news from the devastated country that he was helping to rebuild, and then we heard that he had been kidnaped – the rest you know.
When a doctor with a humanitarian group was released from captivity in Chechnya, the front-page teaser headline on copies of Newsday aimed at city readers said "Kidnaped Queens Native Is Freed".
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24] capped five straight days of rampaging by kidnaping one of the world's outstanding soccer players from his downtown hotel room.
Kidnapping, also spelled kidnaping, criminal offense consisting of the unlawful taking and carrying away of a person by force or fraud or the unlawful seizure and detention of a person against his will.
"Everyone knows about America's intelligence capacity, everyone knows that Libya is not able to face America, but we condemn this kidnaping of a Libyan citizen.
It is the unholy mixture of rising Third World criminality and widening worldwide terrorism that has fueled the surge in demand for kidnaping insurance, experts say.
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