| 单词 | captor |
| 释义 | captor (once / 1206 pages) n Someone who catches a person or animal and keeps them confined or imprisoned is a captor. Visiting the zoo, you might find yourself wondering if the lions see the zookeepers as friends or as captors. The word captor sounds a little bit like capture, and it's no coincidence — they're both rooted in the Latin capere, "to take, hold, or seize." So if you capture a cricket and keep it in a little cage, you are its captor. And, when a police force captures a criminal and puts them in prison, the police become captors too. The original meaning of captor was actually "a censor." WORD FAMILYcaptor: captors USAGE EXAMPLES“I told the captors the whole world was watching,” he said. The Guardian(Dec 30, 2016) After the deal in October, the girls' captors announced that any girl who wanted to be released should line up. BBC(Dec 24, 2016) In it, they begged their governments to intervene on their behalf with their Afghan captors. Seattle Times(Dec 21, 2016) n a person who captures and holds people or animals Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper capturer liberator someone who releases people from captivity or bondage abductor, kidnaper, kidnapper, snatcher someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom) surprisera captor who uses surprise to capture the victim crimp, crimpersomeone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers seizer, shanghaiera kidnapper who drugs men and takes them for compulsory service aboard a ship individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul a human being |
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