Crossword-Solution: HOSTAGE 7 letters, 68 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
Hostage n. A person given as a pledge or security for the performance
of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, on the
performance of which the person is to be released.

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HOSTAGE anagram HEGOATS, SHEGOAT

We have 68 clues for the answer “HOSTAGE”

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person who is illegally held prisoner 1 answer
2005 Bruce Willis thriller 1 answer
A diplomat may negotiate one's release 1 answer
Bad thing to be held 1 answer
Behan's "The ___" 1 answer
Conditional detainee 1 answer
Damon, for one 1 answer
Eddie Murphy rescuee in "Metro" 1 answer
Iran detainee of 1979-81 1 answer
Jack's Mannequin song about holdup victim? 1 answer
Kidnappee, at times 1 answer
Kidnapping victim 1 answer
One held for ransom 1 answer
One used to exert pressure 1 answer
What Damon was for Pythias. 1 answer
Way you probably don't want to be held 1 answer
Victim of kidnap 1 answer
Terrorist's insurance 1 answer
Santa is one in "The Nightmare Before Christmas" 1 answer
SWAT team rescuee 1 answer
Prisoner of a sort. 1 answer
Person held as a pledge. 1 answer
One kept prisoner as security 1 answer
One way to be held 2 answers
HELD for ransom 3 answers
ASIAN RETURNED INTELLIGENCE ON TERRORISTS 10 answers
compassed 30 answers
Encased 31 answers
circumscribed 32 answers
in jail 32 answers
in bondage 32 answers
immured 32 answers
interred 33 answers
Pent (up) 33 answers
Detained 33 answers
Taken 34 answers
hampered 34 answers
Locked in 34 answers
laid-up 35 answers
Stake 35 answers
enslaved 35 answers
penned in 35 answers
BEHIND bars 36 answers
Hemmed in 36 answers
fettered 36 answers
curbed 36 answers
bounded 37 answers
Laid up 38 answers
surety 38 answers
imprisoned 39 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with HOSTAGE (5)

Only Kahgahgee, the leader, Kahgahgee, the King of Ravens, He alone was spared among them As a hostage for his people.
The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991
Sir Percy Blakeney had loved her once; he was her husband; why should she stand alone through this terrible ordeal? He had very little brains, it is true, but he had plenty of muscle: surely, if she provided the thought, and he the manly energy and pluck, together they could outwit the astute diplomatist, and save the hostage from his vengeful hands, without imperilling the life of the noble leader of that gallant little band of heroes.
The Scarlet Pimpernel Baroness Orczy 1993
Homosoto had heard rumors that they were being held hostage by hackers and was concerned that some of Miles' techies had gone out on their own.
Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993
For this love's sake they had come into the world, and the mingling of their lives was to be the Perfect Life, the intended, ordained union of the soul of man with the soul of woman, indissoluble, harmonious as music, beautiful beyond all thought, a foretaste of Heaven, a hostage of immortality.
The Octopus Frank Norris 2008
She suddenly realized that she had commenced to feel that this giant of the slums was invulnerable, and with the thought came another--that to him she had come to look more than to Theriere for eventual rescue; and now, here she found herself in the center of a savage island, surrounded as she felt confident she was by skulking murderers, with only two dying white men and a brown hostage as companions.
The Mucker Edgar Rice Burroughs 1995

Quotes with HOSTAGE (3)

If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?
Steven Wright
Conner Lassiter. Scheduled to be unwound the 21st of November-until you went AWOL. You caused an accident that killed a bus driver, left dozens of others injured, and shut down an interstate highway for hours. Then, on top of it, you took a hostage AND shot a Juvey-cop with his own tranq gun."..." He's the Akron AWOL?!
Neal Shusterman Unwind
Everyone's holding my happiness hostage.
Donny Miller Beautiful People with Beautiful Feelings
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Rock & Roll, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 22 times in crossword archives (1952–2021).