Usually means: Person who unlawfully abducts others.
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  1. kidnaper: Merriam-Webster
  2. kidnaper: Collins English Dictionary
  3. kidnaper: Vocabulary.com
  4. kidnaper: Wordnik
  5. kidnaper: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. kidnaper: Wiktionary
  7. kidnaper: Dictionary.com
  8. kidnaper: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Kidnaper: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Kidnaper: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Kidnaper: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. kidnaper: FreeDictionary.org
  13. kidnaper: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. Kidnaper: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. kidnaper: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary

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  1. kidnaper: Encyclopedia

(Note: See kidnap as well.)

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▸ noun:  Alternative spelling of kidnapper [A person who kidnaps someone.]

Similar:
snatcher, abductor, catnaper, cat-napper, baby-sitter, child-toucher, cop killer, child minder, hitch-hiker, baby sitter, more...

Opposite:
rescuer, liberator, savior

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Similar:
snatcher, abductor, catnaper, cat-napper, baby-sitter, child-toucher, cop killer, child minder, hitch-hiker, baby sitter, more...

Opposite:
rescuer, liberator, savior



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