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-nap

-nap suffix: forming verbs with the sense of "abduct", or sometimes "abscond with".

Suffix

-nap

  1. Forming verbs with the sense of "abduct", or sometimes "abscond with".

Origin of -nap

Apparently a back-formation from kidnap (see libfix); ultimately from nap.

Words formed from -nap

Questions about -nap

What does -nap mean?
-nap means forming verbs with the sense of "abduct", or sometimes "abscond with".
What part of speech is -nap?
-nap is a suffix.

Words near -nap in the dictionary

  1. -nab-
  2. -nado
  3. -nadoes
  4. -nados
  5. -nakinra
  6. -nap
  7. -nast
  8. -nasty
  9. -naut
  10. -nauts
  11. -navir

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Adapted from Wiktionary: -nap (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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