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a. : taken and held as or as if a prisoner of war. b (1) : kept within bounds : confined. (2) : of or relating to captive animals. captive breeding. 2. : held under control of another but having the appearance of independence.
a person or animal whose ability to move or act freely is limited by being kept in a space; a prisoner, especially a person held by the enemy during a war: When the town was recaptured, we found soldiers who had been captives for several years. hold/take someone captive.
Sep 18, 2015 · Captive: Directed by Jerry Jameson. With Elle Graham, Kate Mara, Claudia Church, Gina Stewart. A single mother struggling with drug addiction is taken hostage in her own apartment by a man on the run who has broken out of jail and murdered the judge assigned to his case.
Synonyms for CAPTIVE: imprisoned, arrested, captured, jailed, interned, incarcerated, confined, kidnapped; Antonyms of CAPTIVE: free, unrestrained, unconfined, released, liberated, freed, emancipated, delivered.
a person or animal that is confined or restrained, esp a prisoner of war. a person whose behaviour is dominated by some emotion. a captive of love. adjective. held as prisoner. held under restriction or control; confined. captive water held behind a dam. captivated; enraptured.
Captive is a 2015 American crime-drama thriller film directed by Jerry Jameson and written by Brian Bird and Reinhard Denke, based on the non-fiction book Unlikely Angel by Ashley Smith.
A captive person or animal is being kept imprisoned or enclosed. Her heart had begun to pound inside her chest like a captive animal. American English : captive / ˈkæptɪv /
captive. adjective. /ˈkæptɪv/. /ˈkæptɪv/. kept as a prisoner or in a space that you cannot get out of; unable to escape. captive animals. They were taken captive by masked gunmen. captive breeding (= the breeding of wild animals in zoos, etc.) She was held captive in a castle.
CAPTIVE definition: 1. A captive person or animal is being kept somewhere and is not allowed to leave. 2. a group of…. Learn more.
What does the word captive mean? There are 11 meanings listed in OED's entry for the word captive . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
