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rekidnapping

rekidnapping is the present participle and gerund of rekidnap.

Meaning of rekidnap

Verb

rekidnap (third-person singular simple present rekidnaps, present participle rekidnapping or (rare, US only) rekidnaping, simple past and past participle rekidnapped or (rare, US only) rekidnaped)

  1. (transitive) To kidnap again.
    • He was rekidnapped in 1990, and never seen again.2009 July 15, Joyce Hor-Chung Lau, “Courtroom Circus: A Feng Shui Master and a $4 Billion Estate”, in New York Times

Questions about rekidnapping

What is rekidnapping the present participle and gerund of?
Rekidnapping is the present participle and gerund of rekidnap.

Words near rekidnapping in the dictionary

  1. rekicks
  2. rekidnap
  3. rekidnaped
  4. rekidnaping
  5. rekidnapped
  6. rekidnapping
  7. rekidnaps
  8. rekill
  9. rekilled
  10. rekilling
  11. rekills

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rekidnapping (page history and authors); rekidnap (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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