captor:
(plural: ‘captors‘; pronunciation: the letter ‘c’ is said with a ‘k’ sound as in “king”; the opposite word in meaning is ‘captive‘ previous entry)
‘to capture’ = to catch or arrest somebody and to keep them in a prison or some secret place where they cannot move or speak freely
a person who has caught (who has captured) someone and kept them as a prisoner (as a captive),
e.g.
After capturing him, Ahmed’s captors treated him well and promised to release him when their demands were met.
In her interview, the captive, Mrs Jones, told the interviewer that she was not able to identify any of her captors because they wore masks and talked very little and very softly in a foreign language.
In most cases of kidnapping and hostage situations, the captors take extreme caution not to give away their identity to their captives.
For an interesting article on kidnapping and captors, please click here, and for another item of news which gives us an idea how captors sometimes act savagely, please click here.
