生いけ捕どる

godan verb (-ru), transitive verb

capture alive; take prisoner

Used for catching a person or animal without killing them. Often implies a deliberate effort to keep the target alive.

• 敵てきのスパイを生いけ捕どることに成せい功こうした。

  They succeeded in capturing the enemy spy alive.

• その珍めずらしい蝶ちょうを生いけ捕どって標ひょう本ほんにした。

  They caught the rare butterfly alive and made it into a specimen.