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captor

cap·tor [ ˈkap-tər]

captor

noun

[ˈkap-tər]

Definition of captor

: one that has captured a person or thing

Recent Examples on the Web

//Burkett then tried to jerk away from his captors and grab a radio from a desk in the control room.
— oregonlive, "Notorious bank robber who led bloody 1982 Portland jail escape dies, prison officials say," 8 Nov. 2019
//The captors are members of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's Python Action Team.
— Alaa Elassar, CNN, "A massive 98-pound Burmese python was captured in Florida," 5 Oct. 2019
//In this live-action re-imagining of the fairy tale, a young woman takes her father’s place as prisoner in a beast’s castle, only to fall in love with her beastly captor, who turns out to be a prince.
— Los Angeles Times, "Movies on TV for Oct. 6-12: ‘Throne of Blood’ and more," 4 Oct. 2019
//The officials were worried about antagonizing the North Vietnamese captors and undermining negotiations to free the prisoners.
— San Diego Union-Tribune, "New Coronado exhibit tells story of POW wives," 25 Sep. 2019
//In a proof-of-life video after their kidnapping, the three men had identified their captors as members of a dissident arm of the now disbanded Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
— Fox News, "Bodies of 3 kidnapped Ecuadorean press workers identified," 25 June 2018
//Fatima, now 18, is among thousands of children detained in recent years by Nigerian armed forces — including many who had fled extremist captors — amid a decade-long conflict that often turns victims into suspects.
— Washington Post, "Nigerian children who escaped Boko Haram say they faced another ‘prison’: military detention," 14 Sep. 2019
//Its points of view are startlingly arresting: an older woman and her young godson in Brownsville, Texas, who become the unlikely heroes in the rescue of a boy who has fled his captors.
— Rigoberto González, Los Angeles Times, "Migration is a human condition -- for the people of the Americas, movement is propelled by survival," 31 July 2019
//Her plight is desperate but, for moviegoers, not wholly unfamiliar, whereas the dynamic among her captors—to whom any political cause feels ever more remote—is discomfortingly new.
— Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, "“Ad Astra” Will Leave You Awed, Confused, and Sad," 13 Sep. 2019

First Known Use of captor

circa 1688, in the meaning defined above

History and Etymology for captor

Late Latin, from Latin capere

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