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# captor

noun (captors)

«captor» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A captor is a person who takes someone prisoner and holds them against their will. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/captor/#m1)

### In the lessons

in tales a captor keeps a hero or princess shut away, and the hero plans how to escape

### Examples

- The captor locked the princess in a tower. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/captor/#x1)
- The prisoners begged their captors for mercy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/captor/#x2)
- The knight freed himself from his captor. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/captor/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «captor» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/captor/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«captor» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/captor.html) on Mova free.