Stockholm

1. A municipality, the capital and largest city of Sweden; the county seat of Stockholm County, Sweden.
2. metonymicallyThe Swedish government.
3. A county of Sweden.
4. A number of places elsewhere, usually named after the Swedish capital:
   1. A village in the Rural Municipality of Fertile Belt, Saskatchewan, Canada.
   2. A township in Crawford County, Iowa.
   3. A town in Aroostook County, Maine.
   4. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Wright County, Minnesota.
   5. An unincorporated community in Hardyston Township, Sussex County, New Jersey.
   6. A town in St. Lawrence County, New York.
   7. A town in Grant County, South Dakota.
   8. A town and village therein, in Pepin County, Wisconsin.

present singular third person Stockholms · participle present Stockholming · participle past Stockholmed · past Stockholmed

1. To suffer from Stockholm syndrome; to form an emotional bond or identification with one's captor or oppressor, also, to form such a bond with one's victim.

   A negotiator must never Stockholm with hostages.

   1996, Jeffery Deaver, A Maiden's Grave

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   Police say Stockholming is good, because the offender also identifies with the hostage, and it's much easier to hurt someone you don't know than someone you do.

   2006, Tom Philbin, Cop Speak: The Lingo of Law Enforcement and Crime, page 208

   There's no need for any kind of racist opposition because we are now Stockholmed to the point where we will begin to oppress ourselves if we're not careful ” ( “ The Past is Prologue , ” 25 ) .

   2009, Amy Cynthia Tang, Rethinking Repetition, page 25

   Then the pair were jointly “Stockholmed”, as Bristol Professor Sir Michael Berry, described it.

   2011 October, K Novoselov, “Interview with Konstantin Novoselov: 2010 Nobel Prize winner for Physics”, in Engineering & Technology, volume 6, number 9