2 entries found for captive.
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Function: adjective
Text: taken and held prisoner <the captive soldiers were treated humanely by the guards>
Synonyms apprehended, arrested, captured, caught, imprisoned, incarcerated, interned, jailed
Related Words bound, enslaved, indentured; subdued, subjugated
Near Antonyms emancipated, enfranchised, freed, liberated, released
Antonyms free