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Discover Ludwig"take prisoner" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written and spoken English.
It means to capture or detain someone as a prisoner. It can be used in both formal and informal contexts. Here is an example of how to use it in a sentence: "The police were able to take the suspect prisoner after a high-speed car chase."
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Those you take prisoner will be tortured or killed by the security services.
The transitive verb to seize most often means "to grab or clutch; to capture forcibly and take prisoner; to take possession".
Yet there's a fierce debate among the men about how to handle some goatherds they take prisoner, which effectively interrogates the purpose of fighting against a guerrilla group lodged in a native population.
"In a new qualitative achievement and in a complicated security operation, the Islamic resistance was able to take prisoner an Israeli Army officer with the rank of colonel who works with one of the Israeli security agencies".
If they refuse to do so, make the least show of resistance, or attempt to run away from you, you will fire upon and compell [sic] them to surrender, breaking and destroying the Spears, Clubs, and Waddies of all those you take prisoner.
Katyn begins with the dual invasion of Poland in 1939, sandwiched by the twin tyrant cynics of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact: from the west, the Nazis, and from the east, the Soviets, who take prisoner virtually the entire Polish officer class.
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He does not take prisoners.
She did not bargain or take prisoners.
It was decidedly not Mr. Hughes's method to take prisoners.
"You won't take prisoners?" "No," Al Halaj shouted.
"Take prisoners and kill them," the letter says.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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