Word Finder - hostage

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A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or similar agreement, such as to ensure the status of a vassal.

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A person seized in order to compel another party to act (or refrain from acting) in a certain way, because of the threat of harm to the hostage.

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Something that constrains one's actions because it is at risk.

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One who is compelled by something, especially something that poses a threat; one who is not free to choose their own course of action.

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The condition of being held as security or to compel someone else to act or not act in a particular way.

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(possibly nonstandard) To give (someone or something) as a hostage to (someone or something else).

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(possibly nonstandard) To hold (someone or something) hostage, especially in a way that constrains or controls the person or thing held, or in order to exchange for something else.

He.s taken a human hostage, and we need to know where she is.

If that was what they thought, they'd hold his family hostage in the immortal world.

In 1868 the reigning chief, Bib Doda, died, and his son and successor Prenk was detained as a hostage by the Turks.

He took some part in the political events of the time; in 994 he was a hostage in the hands of the Northmen, and he was not unfamiliar with the actualities of war.

In Paris itself he was for a short time committed to the Bastille by the Leaguers, as a kind of hostage, it is said, for a member of their party who had been arrested at Rouen by Henry of Navarre.

Tell everyone I said hello and I'm being held hostage by one of the Others.

Matthias, as the next-door neighbour of the Turks, claimed the custody of so valuable a hostage, and would have used him as a means of extorting concessions from Bayezid.

In 367 Philip was delivered as hostage to the Thebans, then the leading power of Greece (by whom does not seem clear).

On the 4th of April 1871 he was arrested by the communists as a hostage, and confined in the prison at Mazas, from which he was transferred to La Roquette on the advance of the army of Versailles.

On his return home Snorri sent his son to the king as a hostage, and made peace between Norway and Iceland, but his power and influence were used more for his own enrichment and aggrandizement - he was logsogumaar again from 1222 to 1232 - than for the advantage of the king.

Peter left him in the hands of the Turks as a hostage, and on the rupture of the peace he was imprisoned in the Seven Towers.

At an early age Ulfilas was sent, either as an envoy or as a hostage for his tribe, to Constantinople, probably on the occasion of the treaty arranged in 332.

The debtor being seized for debt could nominate as mancipium or hostage to work off the debt, his wife, a child, or slave.

The duke went to England in 1360 as a hostage for the fulfilment of the treaty of Bretigny, returning to France in 1367 on the pretext of collecting his ransom.

The true heir, Demetrius, son of Seleucus, being now retained in Rome as a hostage, the kingdom was seized by the younger brother of Seleucus, Antiochus Iv.

Once he was himself taken prisoner and had to give his son Kavadh as hostage till after two years he was able to pay a heavy ransom.

When only seven years old he was sent by his father, with his brother the dauphin Francis, as a hostage to Spain in 1526, whence they returned after the conclusion of the peace of Cambrai in 1530.

In 1427 James seized, as a male fee, the earldom of Strathearn, gave the earl by female descent the title of 1Vlenteith, and sent him to England as a hostage for his ransom.

It is a hostage rescue map, where the hostage rescue map, where the hostages are inside a fort which is covered in snow.

Not only did Riley attempt to blackmail Francis, he also held him hostage at gunpoint, so you know the man is eight kinds of crazy.

The previews leading up to General Hospital's Metro Court hostage storyline in 2007 were very exciting for the fans and lead more than one viewer back to the tube for the sweeps month storyline.

The man returned to haunt Greenlee time and time again, even taking her hostage and demanding a million dollar ransom.

At the time of the Bolshevist rule in Hungary he was held prisoner as a hostage.

After the battle he asked terms of Radetzky, who demanded the occupation by Austria of a large part of Piedmont and the heir to the throne as a hostage.

It sounds like some English gothic—a naive waif married off to tyrannical older man who holds her hostage in a golden cage and beats her into submission!

A city on the brink of total anarchy is being held hostage by the increased threat of organized gang violence.

Perhaps the crucial moment comes when Mickey and Mallory prepare to shoot a hostage after their dramatic prison break.

They were both held hostage for some years in the Lebanon, in conditions similar to those in the play.

A fourth American hostage, Tom Fox, was confirmed dead two weeks ago.

The students will took part in hostage rescue scenarios including abseiling.

At Turin they will speedily commit such robbery that in the fort they will ravish their hostage.

It is not yet clear who the hostage takers were.

These cover a range of activities, such as hijacking, hostage taking, bombing, and terrorism financing.

He was raised to the throne by those Parthian grandees who would not acknowledge Vonones I., whom Augustus had sent from Rome (where he lived as hostage) as successor of his father Phraates IV.

The king, who had sought death in vain all day, had to ask terms of Radetzky; the latter demanded Accession a slice of Piedmont and the heir to the throne (Victor of Victor Emmanuel) as a hostage, without a reservation for Emmanuel the consent of parliament.

The bishop of Glasgow, James the steward, and Sir Alexander Lindesay became sureties for Bruce until he delivered his daughter Marjorie as a hostage.

The khan of Khiva laid a plan for detaining him as a hostage, but he eluded the danger and returned safely, after concluding with the khan of Bokhara a treaty of friendship. His next diplomatic exploit was in the Far East, as plenipotentiary to the court of Peking.

For a time he lived as a hostage in England and became king of the Scots after driving out his uncle, Donald Bane, in 1093, an enterprise in which he was helped by some English and Normans.

As long as you are willing to allow this man to tell you about his ex, to hold the possibility of having a wonderful relationship with you hostage, you are settling.

Carolyn shot Nora, while holding a group of people hostage in her husband's store.

So incensed, Carolyn goes to his store and holds several people hostage.

During the scuffle afterwards, Carolyn herself is killed by another hostage.

The day before Sydney's wedding she is held hostage by a man who shot his own son.

One major incident was a hostage crisis that put Roland and Claudia Joy in danger.

Roland and Claudia Joy are put in a hostage situation at the hospital, and Denise decides to become a nurse.

Carrie returns, hits Dan with a car, and takes him hostage, only for him to eventually kill her.

Some businesses entire networks have been invaded and held hostage until they paid a ransom.

He tracks down a runaway, reunites old lovers, deals with a hostage crisis in a bank.

We were holding the world hostage?

The White God hadn't said a word, until requesting a hostage of his own in exchange for sending his brother to live with the Black God.