captive
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4.6
- noun
- /ˈkæptɪv/
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cautivo
- The rescue team managed to free the captive from the enemy's stronghold.
- take captives
- release captives
- hold captives
Slave trading was stealing people as captives and transporting them and selling them.
- Slave trading was stealing people as captives and transporting them and selling them.
- What he does is he removes the chains from all of the captives and he leaves things in their own hands.
- The other half of the country were steeped in the dependence on the labor of these African captives and their descendants.
- There was a lot of before they made that big standing army, they had just ritual battles that they would have, and they'd take captives.
- It's not just let's go get Helen and kick some Trojan ass and fight some people on the way and maybe, you know, argue about war captives.
- Get captives were starting to be released.
- I mean the Irish foreman, the Irish president said that one of the Irish captives was lost and then found.
- I mean the Irish foreign man of the Irish president said that one of the Irish captives was lost and then found.
- And every time they cut a slave boat in the Atlantic, they come with a slave and drop them in the so-called slave captive, drop them in Trinidad.
- So before city time, I wrote a book called Captives, which is the history kind of Rikers Island and how it came to be.
Examples
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The house where we were being held captive just disappeared on me.
Fiction book (1995) -
You are one of the captives we freed?
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A king does not follow a captive, however weird that captive may be.
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"Promise me you will never take another, not a captive, not another wife."
Fiction book (1992) -
I want to present the captives to the media of the war.
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I had family among the captives...
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His priests are dead, and his acolyte's a captive.
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Dexter is one of the captives.
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We've had 400 sightings of Americans held captive.
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How long had the Addershag been a captive of those men, chained and imprisoned in that cellar?
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
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1.1
A person kept locked because they broke the law or were captured during a war
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3.9
Someone others hold to force someone else to do something
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3.4
A person legally owned by someone else who must work without pay or freedom
337
3.5
A person kept in a prison, hospital, or similar place
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3.9
A soldier the enemy captures and holds during a war
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6.8
A person authorities hold for legal or political reasons
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
Company owned by a maker that gives loans to dealers or buyers to buy its products
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word captive comes from the old Latin verb capere, which means 'to take', and it shares the same root as capture. So a captive is someone or an animal who has been 'taken' and held, not free.