Crime
Crime noun - Activities that are in violation of the laws of the state.
Kidnapping and crime are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Kidnapping" instead a noun "Crime".
Nearby Words: criminal, criminally
Kidnapping
Kidnapping noun - The unlawful or forcible carrying away of a person or animal.
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Synonyms for Kidnapping
Crime and kidnapping are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Crime" instead a noun "Kidnapping".
Both words in one sentence
- There is an episode of CHiPs where someone steals a car that had the owner's baby still in the car, escalating their crime from joyriding to kidnapping.
Source: Unintentionally Notorious Crime - Similarly, Hannah is posing as a true crime novelist writing a book about the kidnapping so she can try to get revenge on her parents and Janie.
Source: Literature / Janie -
In the real world, a kidnapping committed for the purpose of coercing another person to commit a crime on the original criminal's behalf is called a tiger kidnapping.
Source: I Have Your Wife
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Kidnapping and Crime. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/crime/kidnapping
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