captor
/ˈkaptə
/noun
A person that catches or confines another: he managed to escape from his captors two nights later...
- This seemed to catch their captor by surprise, but he quickly regained his composure.
- Many of the orange jumpsuit-clad detainees fight their captors at every opportunity.
- I only hope he can escape his captors so that we can remember his further exploits.
Synonyms
jailer, guard, incarcerator, custodian, keeper, enslaver;
Law detainer
Origin
Mid 16th century: from Latin, from capt- 'seized, taken', from the verb capere.
Rhymes
- contact lens
- contactless
- contact man
- contact metamorphism
- contactor
- contact print
- contact process
- contact sheet
- contact sport
- contadina
- contadino
- Contagem
- contagion
- contagious
- contagious abortion
- contagiously
- contagiousness
- contagium
- contain
- containable
- container
- container-grown
- containerise
- containerization
- containerize