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captive

Definition

  • noun: someone who is captured and kept as a prisoner
  • adjective: captured and kept in a prison, cage, etc.
  • adjective: taken and held as or as if a prisoner of war
  • synonyms: charmed, captivated, capture

Examples

  • The passengers on the plane were a 'captive audience'. [=the passengers on the plane could not leave and had to listen to what was being said]

  • Enemy forces took/held them 'captive'. [=took or kept them as prisoners]

  • The 'captive' soldiers planned their escape.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) slip past our nets. We are no spies. We track a party of Uruk-hai westward across the plain. They have taken two of our friends captive. The Uruks are destroyed. We slaughtered them during the night. But there were two Hobbits. Did you see two Hobbits with them? They would be small. (..)
    2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers