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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 .


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