Crossword-Solution: CAPTIVE 7 letters, 66 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

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Word Word Type Definition
Captive n. A prisoner taken by force or stratagem, esp., by an enemy,
in war; one kept in bondage or in the power of another.
Captive n. One charmed or subdued by beaty, excellence, or affection;
one who is captivated.
Captive a. Made prisoner, especially in war; held in bondage or in
confinement.
Captive a. Subdued by love; charmed; captivated.
Captive a. Of or pertaining to bondage or confinement; serving to
confine; as, captive chains; captive hours.
Captive v. t. To take prisoner; to capture.

We have 66 clues for the answer “CAPTIVE”

Clue Answers
Like hostages 1 answer
Aida, to the Egyptians 1 answer
Daniel in Babylon, e.g. 1 answer
*One who's kept 1 answer
Getaway planner? 1 answer
Kind of audience 1 answer
Like some audiences and animals 1 answer
Like some enrapt audiences 1 answer
Type of audience 1 answer
What audiences may be 1 answer
___ audience (actively listening group) 1 answer
someone who has been captured 1 answer
Like some audiences 2 answers
CONFINED person 3 answers
Detainee 8 answers
oppressed 9 answers
AUDIENCES MATURE 10 answers
Audiences For mature 10 answers
A PERSON HELD IN THE GRIP OF A STRONG EMOTION OR PASSION 11 answers
compassed 30 answers
Encased 31 answers
Convict 31 answers
in jail 32 answers
in bondage 32 answers
circumscribed 32 answers
immured 32 answers
interred 33 answers
Pent (up) 33 answers
Detained 33 answers
Taken 34 answers
Locked in 34 answers
hampered 34 answers
laid-up 35 answers
enslaved 35 answers
penned in 35 answers
curbed 36 answers
fettered 36 answers
BEHIND bars 36 answers
Hemmed in 36 answers
bounded 37 answers
hostage 38 answers
Laid up 38 answers
imprisoned 39 answers
caged 40 answers
Encircled 41 answers
Prisoner 42 answers
shut in 44 answers
Held 44 answers
Checked 46 answers
finite 46 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with CAPTIVE (5)

With his prisoner-string he bound him, Led him captive to his wigwam, Tied him fast with cords of elm-bark To the ridge-pole of his wigwam.
The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991
Next came one Who mourn’d in earnest, when the Captive Ark Maim’d his brute Image, head and hands lopt off In his own Temple, on the grunsel edge, Where he fell flat, and sham’d his Worshipers: _Dagon_ his Name, Sea Monster, upward Man And downward Fish: yet had his Temple high Rear’d in _Azotus_, dreaded through the Coast Of _Palestine_, in _Gath_ and _Ascalon_, And _Accaron_ and _Gaza’s_ frontier bounds.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
Captive register--A register of ships maintained by a territory, possession, or colony primarily or exclusively for the use of ships owned in the parent country.
The 1991 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1992
Beneath them a captive sheep lay panting, increasing the rapidity ot its pants as misgiving merged in terror, till it quivered like the hot landscape outside.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
But for the miscreant exile who returned Minded in flames and ashes to blot out His father’s city and his father’s gods, And glut his vengeance with his kinsmen’s blood, Or drag them captive at his chariot wheels— For Polyneices ’tis ordained that none Shall give him burial or make mourn for him, But leave his corpse unburied, to be meat For dogs and carrion crows, a ghastly sight.
The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000

Quotes with CAPTIVE (3)

Never let fear hold you captive. Never let self-doubt hold you captive. Never let frustration hold you captive.
Roy T. Bennett The Light in the Heart
Hunky Heroes, rescuing distressed women, captive princesses, and girls without wheels since 1684. p. 450
Lauren Oliver Before I Fall
You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live. … You are captives — and you have made a captive of the world itself. That's what's at stake, isn't it? — your captivity and the captivity of the world.
Daniel Quinn Ishmael
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 19 times in crossword archives (1977–2025).