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captor

[kap-ter]

noun

  1. a person who has captured a person or thing.



captor

/ ˈæə /

noun

  1. a person or animal that holds another captive

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of captor1

1640–50; < Late Latin, equivalent to cap ( ere ) to take + -tor -tor
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of captor1

C17: from Latin, from capere to take
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Mr Singh said he had not been able to speak to his daughter but he believed that she had "somehow managed to escape her captors" and insisted that she was "innocent".

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One can’t fault Harrison, whose Zephyr spends much of the movie in a battle of wills with her captor.

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Some of the victims met their captors in residences or hotel rooms.

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Investigators believe the five were taken by their captors to a property, where they were killed.

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The footage, and the fact that their captors shared it with the relatives in an attempt to get them to pay ransom money, caused outrage in Peru.

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