verb To unlawfully seize and hold a person captive, often to demand a ransom.
- Angrest, a soldier, was kidnapped from his tank at the Nahal Oz base when it was attacked by Hamas.
— ToI staff, The next 24: These are the remaining hostages presumed alive in Gaza (2025)
- The movie begins when thieves try to kidnap a rich family's young daughter.
- The gang kidnapped the businessman and demanded a large ransom.
- Police rescued the child two days after she was kidnapped.
- Hello, ladies! How’s the Big Apple? Rotten, Jerry! Clover's been kidnapped! Oh, dear! That's the second time this month!
— Michelle and Robert Lamoreaux, Model Citizens (2002)
