Usually means: Unlawful abduction of a person.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. kidnap: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. kidnap: Merriam-Webster
  3. kidnap: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. kidnap: The Word Spy
  5. kidnap: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  6. kidnap: Collins English Dictionary
  7. kidnap: Vocabulary.com
  8. Kidnap, kidnap: Wordnik
  9. kidnap: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  10. kidnap: Wiktionary
  11. kidnap: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. kidnap: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. kidnap: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. kidnap: Dictionary.com
  15. kidnap: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. kidnap: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. Kidnap (Sinhala film), Kidnap: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Kidnap: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. kidnap: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. kidnap: Rhymezone
  21. kidnap: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. kidnap: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. kidnap: FreeDictionary.org
  24. kidnap: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. kidnap: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. kidnap: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. kidnap: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. kidnap: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Kidnap: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See kidnaped as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (transitive) To seize or detain a person unlawfully and move or conceal them; sometimes for ransom.
noun:  The crime, or an instance, of kidnapping.

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