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Stockholm syndromes

Stockholm syndromes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of Stockholm syndrome.

Meaning of Stockholm syndrome

Verb

Stockholm syndrome (third-person singular simple present Stockholm syndromes, present participle Stockholm syndroming, simple past and past participle Stockholm syndromed)

  1. (informal, transitive) To cause someone to become affected by Stockholm syndrome.
    • The girls, it turns out, found the experience oddly positive, and not because they were brainwashed or Stockholm syndromed.2015 July 17, Sarah Lyall, “Review: In 'Pretty Is,' Grown Friends Recall Being Kidnapped”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original...

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What is Stockholm syndromes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Stockholm syndromes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of Stockholm syndrome.

Words near Stockholm syndromes in the dictionary

  1. stockholdings
  2. Stockholm
  3. Stockholm effect
  4. Stockholm syndrome
  5. Stockholm syndromed
  6. Stockholm syndromes
  7. Stockholm syndroming
  8. Stockholm tar
  9. Stockholm tars
  10. Stockholmed
  11. Stockholmer

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