Usually means: Hostage develops sympathy for captor.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word Stockholm Syndrome:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. Stockholm syndrome, Stockholm syndrome: Merriam-Webster
  2. Stockholm syndrome: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Stockholm syndrome: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Stockholm syndrome: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Stockholm syndrome: Wiktionary
  6. Stockholm syndrome: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Stockholm syndrome: Dictionary.com
  8. Stockholm Syndrome: Online Etymology Dictionary
  9. Stockholm Syndrome (Derek Webb album), Stockholm Syndrome (Muse song), Stockholm Syndrome (One Direction song), Stockholm Syndrome (band), Stockholm Syndrome (disambiguation), Stockholm Syndrome (film), Stockholm Syndrome (group), Stockholm Syndrome, Stockholm syndrome, The Stockholm Syndrome: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Stockholm syndrome: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Stockholm syndrome: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Stockholm syndrome: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Terms in the field of Psychiatry and Neurology (No longer online)
  5. Stockholm syndrome, The Stockholm syndrome: Medical dictionary
  6. Stockholm syndrome: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Stockholm Syndrome: A Word A Day

Definitions from Wiktionary (Stockholm syndrome)

noun:  A psychological condition in which a hostage emotionally bonds to their captor.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To cause someone to become affected by Stockholm syndrome.

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