Boost your vocab and unleash your potential!

Recently viewed words:
Definitions of ransom
  1. verb
    exchange or buy back for money; under threat

    Similar: 

  2. noun
    money demanded for the return of a captured person

    Similar: 

    type of:
  3. noun
    payment for the release of someone
  4. noun
    the act of freeing from captivity or punishment
    type of:
Definition that contains ransom
  • kidnap take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom
  • snatch take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom
  • kidnapper someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom)
  • abduct take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom
  • snatcher someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom)
  • abductor someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom)
  • ransomed reclaimed by payment of a ransom
  • nobble take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom
  • kidnaper someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom)
  • richard i son of Henry II and King of England from 1189 to 1199; a leader of the Third Crusade; on his way home from the crusade he was captured and held prisoner in the Holy Roman Empire until England ransomed him in 1194 (1157-1199)
My lists:
Recently viewed words: