captor
captor
Definition
cap·tor (kap′tər)
noun
a person who captures (someone or something) or holds captive
Etymology: L
captor
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- have: Have captors of subsequent better fish any basis for suing the maker of the false record claim?
Adjective modifier
- Japanese: The only relief from his Japanese captors was a battered volume he had found from the Sexton Blake Library.
- former: Later he returned to convert his former captors to Christianity.
- Iraqi: A video of Johnson has been aired showing her nervously answering questions from her Iraqi captors.
- would-be: He thus eluded his would-be captors who in fear turned back.
- American: The shots showing Iraqis being brutalized by their American captors must have shocked the locals in Land of the Free.
- German: As the film progresses it becomes clear that the social differences between the POWs are harder to overcome than those with their German captors.
Modifies a noun
- technology: As the successor to the 300D, equipped with the latest CMOS captor technology that generates a 8 megapixel image quality.
captor Quotes
Freeing hostages is like putting up a stage setöwhich you do with the captors, agreeing on each piece as you slowly put it together. Then you leave an exit through which both the captor and the captive can walk with sincerityand dignity.
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