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captor
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun captor has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
captor, n. [L., a cather (of animals), fr. caper to take.].
One who captures any person or thing, as a prisoner or a prize. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
captor, n. a person who captures (a person, place, etc.).
Etymology
L (as CAPTIVE)
ROGET THESAURUS
captor
Taking
N taking, reception, deglutition, appropriation, prehension, prensation, capture, caption, apprehension, deprehension, abreption, seizure, expropriation, abduction, ablation, subtraction, withdrawal, abstraction, ademption, adrolepsy, dispossession, deprivation, deprivement, bereavement, divestment, disherison, distraint, distress, sequestration, confiscation, eviction, rapacity, rapaciousness, extortion, vampirism, theft, resumption, reprise, reprisal, recovery, clutch, swoop, wrench, grip, haul, take, catch, scramble, taker, captor, subduction, taking, privative, prehensile, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, lupine, rapacious, raptorial, ravenous, parasitic, bereft, at one fell swoop, give an inch and take an ell.
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