Crossword-Solution: CAPTOR
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Captor | n. | One who captures any person or thing, as a prisoner or a prize. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CAPTOR | anagram | CARTOP, PROCTA |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAEET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CAPTOR (5)
The Eagle and His Captor AN EAGLE was once captured by a man, who immediately clipped his wings and put him into his poultry-yard with the other birds, at which treatment the Eagle was weighed down with grief.
Lead on, I say, the captor’s caught, and fate Hath ta’en the fowler in the toils he spread; So soon are lost gains gotten by deceit.
The others now swarmed about us, asking many questions, but I would not talk to them, and finally my captor announced that he would lead me back to my cell.
The Englishman, finally concluding that he was a prisoner, saw no alternative open but to accompany his captor, and thus they traveled slowly through the jungle while the sable mantle of the impenetrable forest night fell about them, and the stealthy footfalls of padded paws mingled with the breaking of twigs and the wild calls of the savage life that Clayton felt closing in upon him.
The man relaxed the pressure of his fingers upon her lips, and with a little moan of terror as she recognized him the girl shrank away from her captor.
Quotes with CAPTOR (3)
Therefore, she hummed the provincial lullaby she had learned from the officers’ children in the English Quarter of Jerusalem, and watched in fascination while the savage radical’s eyes misted over with tears. For an instant, the prison bars melted away, and she felt God’s presence — for the first time since their imprisonment. She was not a captive, and this man was not her captor. Indeed, they were both merely God’s children.
You take my heart with you, my loving captor." "Nay, Madelyne. I am your captive in body and soul.
Use fear as a counselor not a captor.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 47 times in crossword archives (1952–2023).