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taken hostage
adjective as in kidnapped
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The experience is intended to emulate being taken hostage, which feels strange in these very real ISIS horror-drenched times.
From The Daily Beast
Several are dead and Western journalists taken hostage as open warfare erupts around pro-Russian stronghold of Slovyansk.
From The Daily Beast
Flanders was overrun by the French, and Queen Philippa had been taken hostage in Ghent.
From The Daily Beast
The crew of the MV Iceberg were first taken hostage on March 29, 2010.
From The Daily Beast
Nine policemen had been killed and ten taken hostage over a dispute about opium poppies.
From The Daily Beast
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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