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Word: Captor
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
mid 16th century: from Latin, from capt- ‘seized, taken’, from the verb capere
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈkaptə
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a person that catches or confines another
Short Definition:person that catches or confines another
Examples:- he managed to escape from his captors two nights later
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