Extort

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To obtain from another by coercion or intimidation.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. 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.
  • v. To obtain by means of the offense of extortion.
  • v. To twist outwards.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. 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
  • v. To get by the offense of extortion. See Extortion, 2.
  • verb-intransitive. To practice extortion.
  • past-participle. Extorted.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To obtain, as from a holder of desired possessions or knowledge, by force or compulsion; wrest or wring away by any violent or oppressive means, as physical force, menace, duress, torture, authority, monopoly, or the necessities of others.
  • In law, to take illegally under color of office. See extortion.
  • To practise extortion.
  • Extortionate.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner
  • v. obtain through intimidation
  • v. obtain by coercion or intimidation
  • Verb Form
    extorted    extorting    extorts   
    Variant
    extortion   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    extorted    elicit    extract    exact    draw    wring    wrest    pinch    screw    shave   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Court    Dort    Mort    Porte    Stuart    abort    assort    athwart    boart    bort