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Captivate :: Captivate (p. a.) Taken prisoner; made captive; insnared; charmed.

Ransom :: Ransom (n.) The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration; redemption; as, prisoners hopeless of ransom..

Inthrall :: Inthrall (v. t.) To reduce to bondage or servitude; to make a thrall, slave, vassal, or captive of; to enslave..

Captive :: Captive (n.) A prisoner taken by force or stratagem, esp., by an enemy, in war; one kept in bondage or in the power of another..

Caitiff :: Caitiff (a.) Captive; wretched; unfortunate.

Captive :: Captive (a.) Subdued by love; charmed; captivated.

Captive :: Captive (v. t.) To take prisoner; to capture.

Deliverance :: Deliverance (n.) The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like; rescue; as, the deliverance of a captive..

Trinitarian :: Trinitarian (n.) One of a monastic order founded in Rome in 1198 by St. John of Matha, and an old French hermit, Felix of Valois, for the purpose of redeeming Christian captives from the Mohammedans..

Prisoner :: Prisoner (n.) A person under arrest, or in custody, whether in prison or not; a person held in involuntary restraint; a captive; as, a prisoner at the bar of a court..

Captived :: Captived (imp. & p. p.) of Captiv.

Captive :: Captive (n.) One charmed or subdued by beaty, excellence, or affection; one who is captivated..

Captivity :: Captivity (n.) The state of being a captive or a prisoner.

Caitiff :: Caitiff (n.) A captive; a prisoner.

Free :: Free (a.) To make free; to set at liberty; to rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, oppresses, etc.; to release; to disengage; to clear; -- followed by from, and sometimes by off; as, to free a captive or a slave; to be freed of these inconveniences..

Bond :: Bond (a.) In a state of servitude or slavery; captive.

Captive :: Captive (a.) Made prisoner, especially in war; held in bondage or in confinement..

Captive :: Captive (a.) Of or pertaining to bondage or confinement; serving to confine; as, captive chains; captive hours..

Catch :: Catch (v. t.) To take captive, as in a snare or net, or on a hook; as, to catch a bird or fish..

Redeem :: Redeem (v. t.) To ransom, liberate, or rescue from captivity or bondage, or from any obligation or liability to suffer or to be forfeited, by paying a price or ransom; to ransom; to rescue; to recover; as, to redeem a captive, a pledge, and the like..

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