kidnap
kid nap
- v take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom
The industrialist's son was kidnapped
- Last week's kidnapings came two days before the Dutch Appeals Court was to rule on prison sentences handed 16 South Moluccans who were implicated in a plot last April to kidnap .
- On June 17, 1932, Congress passed the Lindbergh Law making kidnapping across state lines a Federal felony.
- PTI's list of the most notorious crimes of the past century, coinciding with the 75th anniversary of the Lindbergh kidnapping.