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# captor

«captor» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who takes someone prisoner and holds them…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (captors)

### meaning for a pupil

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

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

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «captor» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/captor/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.