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Meaning of 'extort' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Extort [ p. p. & a.]
- Extorted.
2 . Extort [ v. i.]
- To practice extortion.
3 . Extort [ v. t.]
- To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact; as, to extort contributions from the vanquished; to extort confessions of guilt; to extort a promise; to extort payment of a debt.
- To get by the offense of extortion. See Extortion, 2.

Meaning of 'extort' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . extort [ v]
Meaning (1):
- obtain by coercion or intimidation
Example in sentence:
  • They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss;
  • They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him

Nearby Words:

extacy extance extancy extant extasy extatic extemporal extemporanean extemporaneous extemporarily

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