Kidnapped
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verb (used with object), kid·napped or kid·naped, kid·nap·ping or kid·nap·ing.
to steal, carry off, or abduct by force or fraud, especially for use as a hostage or to extract ransom.
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Kidnapped
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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| —vb , (US) -naps, -napping, -napped, -naps, -naping, -naped | |
| (tr) to carry off and hold (a person), usually for ransom | |
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Example sentences from the web
Jack suspected steve had kidnapped his wife, and angrily confronted him on the issue.
Quest is kidnapped by a mad scientist who turns ordinary animals into giant monsters.
A sketch where this is very prominent is danny husk is kidnapped.
As they travel, they run into the djinn who kidnapped flower.
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