A person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war.

synoniem: captive.

Roget 938: accusation, charge, imputation, slur, inculpation, exprobration^†, delation; crimination; incrimination, accrimination^†, recrimination; tu quoque argument [Lat.]; invective etc. 932.    denunciation, denouncement; libel, challenge, citation, arraignment; impeachment, appeachment^†; indictment, bill of indictment, true bill; lawsuit etc. 969; condemnation etc. 971.    gravamen of a charge, head and front of one's offending, argumentum ad hominem [Lat.]; scandal etc. (detraction) 934; scandalum magnatum [Lat.].    accuser, prosecutor, plaintiff; relator, informer; appellant.    accused, defendant, prisoner, perpetrator, panel, respondent; litigant.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 754: prisoner, prisoner of war, POW, captive, inmate, detainee, hostage, abductee^†, detenu [Fr.], close prisoner.    jail bird, ticket of leave man, chevronne [Fr.].   

Roget 751: restraint; hindrance etc. 706; coercion etc. (compulsion) 744; cohibition^†, constraint, repression, suppression; discipline, control.    confinement; durance, duress; imprisonment; incarceration, coarctation^†, entombment, mancipation^†, durance vile, limbo, captivity; blockade.    arrest, arrestation^†; custody, keep, care, charge, ward, restringency^†.    curb etc. (means of restraint) 752; lettres de cachet [Fr.].    limitation, restriction, protection, monopoly; prohibition etc. 761.    prisoner etc. 754; repressionist^†.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 949: bad man, wrongdoer, worker of iniquity; evildoer etc. 913; sinner; the wicked etc. 945; bad example.    villain, rascal, scoundrel, miscreant, budmash^†, caitiff^†; wretch, reptile, viper, serpent, cockatrice, basilisk, urchin; tiger^†, monster; devil etc. (demon) 980; devil incarnate; demon in human shape, Nana Sahib; hellhound, hellcat; rakehell^†.    bad woman, jade, Jezebel.    scamp, scapegrace, rip, runagate, ne'er-do-well, reprobate, scalawag, scallawag.    rou_e [Fr.], rake; Sadist; skeesicks [Slang], skeezix [U.S.]; limb; one who has sold himself to the devil, fallen angel, ame damnee [Fr.], vaurien^†, mauvais sujet [Fr.], loose fish, sad dog; rounder [Slang]; lost sheep, black sheep; castaway, recreant, defaulter; prodigal etc. 818.    rough, rowdy, hooligan, tough, ugly customer, mean mother [Coll.], ruffian, bully, meanie [Joc.]; Jonathan Wild; hangman.    incendiary, arsonist, fire bug [U.S.].    thief etc. 792; murderer, terrorist etc. 361.    [person who violates the criminal law] culprit, delinquent, crook, hoodlum, hood, criminal, thug, malefactor, offender, perpetrator, perp [Coll.]; disorderly person, misdemeanant [Law]; outlaw; scofflaw; vandal; felon, (convicted criminal); criminal; convict, prisoner, inmate, jail bird, ticket of leave man; multiple offender.    blackguard, polisson^†, loafer, sneak; rapscallion, rascallion^†; cullion^†, mean wretch, varlet, kern^†, ame-de-boue [Fr.], drole^†; cur, dog, hound^†, whelp^†, mongrel^†; lown^†, loon, runnion^†, outcast, vagabond; rogue etc. (knave) 941; ronian^†; scum of the earth, riffraff; Arcades ambo^†.    ... meer laten zien

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