らち
Meanings
Noun
Verb (する, transitive)
1. taking captive; carrying away; kidnapping; kidnaping; abduction
Maybe someone is kidnapping people or something, right?
Pitch accent
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ち
Used in vocabulary (3 in total)
abduction and confinement (esp. unlawful)
abduction victims; abductees
abduction issue (esp. of those Japanese abducted by North Korea)
Examples (5 in total)
Mary was kidnapped by pirates.
There was an incident in which a child was kidnapped.
Maybe someone is kidnapping people or something, right?
I'm told the two of them were abducted half a year before me.
He was taken away by four police officers in the middle of the night.