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captor
noun
[ ˈkaptə ]
• a person that catches or confines another.
• "he managed to escape from his captors two nights later"
Similar:
jailer
,
guard
, incarcerator,
custodian
,
keeper
, enslaver,
detainer
,
Origin:
mid 16th century: from Latin, from capt- ‘seized, taken’, from the verb capere .