Definition of captive

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

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Catch :: Catch (v. t.) To take captive, as in a snare or net, or on a hook; as, to catch a bird or fish..
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..
Captive :: Captive (n.) One charmed or subdued by beaty, excellence, or affection; one who is captivated..
Captive :: Captive (a.) Of or pertaining to bondage or confinement; serving to confine; as, captive chains; captive hours..
Captive :: Captive (v. t.) To take prisoner; to capture.
Bond :: Bond (a.) In a state of servitude or slavery; captive.
Inthrall :: Inthrall (v. t.) To reduce to bondage or servitude; to make a thrall, slave, vassal, or captive of; to enslave..
Captivate :: Captivate (p. a.) Taken prisoner; made captive; insnared; charmed.
Caitiff :: Caitiff (n.) A captive; a prisoner.
Ransom :: Ransom (n.) The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration; redemption; as, prisoners hopeless of ransom..
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..
Captive :: Captive (a.) Made prisoner, especially in war; held in bondage or in confinement..
Captivity :: Captivity (n.) The state of being a captive or a prisoner.
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..
Captived :: Captived (imp. & p. p.) of Captiv.
Delivery :: Delivery (n.) The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon..
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..
Caitiff :: Caitiff (a.) Captive; wretched; unfortunate.
Deliverance :: Deliverance (n.) The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like; rescue; as, the deliverance of a captive..
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..
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