Crossword-Solution: CAPTIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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. |
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Quotes with CAPTIVE (3)
Never let fear hold you captive. Never let self-doubt hold you captive. Never let frustration hold you captive.
Hunky Heroes, rescuing distressed women, captive princesses, and girls without wheels since 1684. p. 450
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.
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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).