kaapata — meaning in English
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English meaning
- capture verb To take hold of or seize something or someone by force.
- corral noun A fenced enclosure for keeping livestock, especially horses or cattle.
- hijack verb To seize illegal control of a vehicle, especially a plane, in order to rob it or force it to a destination.
- kidnap verb To unlawfully seize and hold a person captive, often to demand a ransom.
- pirate noun Someone who attacks and robs ships at sea.
- poach verb To cook something gently in barely simmering liquid, usually water.
- ravish verb To fill someone with intense delight or joy.
- render verb To cause something to become a certain way.
- usurp verb To seize power, a position, or a right that belongs to someone else, without any legal right to it.
Senses
kaapata is used for these senses in English:
- capture (transitive) To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
- corral To capture or round up.
- hijack To forcibly seize control of some vehicle in order to rob it or to reach a destination (especially an airplane, truck or a boat).
- kidnap (transitive) To seize or detain a person unlawfully and move or conceal them; sometimes for ransom. [from 17th c.]
- pirate (transitive) To appropriate by piracy; to plunder at sea.
- poach (obsolete) To stab; to pierce; to spear or drive or plunge into something.
- ravish (archaic, or, literary) To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.
- render (transitive) To capture and turn over to another country secretly and extrajudicially.
capture — full definition
- verb To take hold of or seize something or someone by force.
- verb To record or represent something, especially so it can be seen or reviewed later.
- noun The act of seizing or taking control of something, or the thing seized.
corral — full definition
- noun A fenced enclosure for keeping livestock, especially horses or cattle.
- verb To round up and confine animals or people.