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Definition of extort

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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..

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Compel :: Compel (v. t.) To take by force or violence; to seize; to exact; to extort.

Extort :: Extort (v. i.) To practice extortion.

Bleed :: Bleed (v. i.) To pay or lose money; to have money drawn or extorted; as, to bleed freely for a cause..

Poller :: Poller (n.) One who polls; specifically: (a) One who polls or lops trees. (b) One who polls or cuts hair; a barber. [R.] (c) One who extorts or plunders. [Obs.] Baex. (d) One who registplws votplws, or one who enters his name as a voter..

Wringer :: Wringer (n.) One who, or that which, wrings; hence, an extortioner..

Bribery :: Bribery (n.) Robbery; extortion.

Polling :: Polling (n.) Plunder, or extortion..

Extorsive :: Extorsive (a.) Serving or tending to extort.

Ravening :: Ravening (n.) Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion.

Exactor :: Exactor (n.) One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands..

Extorted :: Extorted (imp. & p. p.) of Extor.

Blackmail :: Blackmail (n.) Payment of money exacted by means of intimidation; also, extortion of money from a person by threats of public accusation, exposure, or censure..

Wring :: Wring (v. t.) To subject to extortion; to afflict, or oppress, in order to enforce compliance..

Rapacious :: Rapacious (a.) Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite..

Express :: Express (a.) To press or squeeze out; as, to express the juice of grapes, or of apples; hence, to extort; to elicit..

Striker :: Strike (n.) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmailing..

Gripeful :: Gripeful (a.) Disposed to gripe; extortionate.

Extortion :: Extortion (n.) That which is extorted or exacted by force.

Shave :: Shave (v. i.) To use a razor for removing the beard; to cut closely; hence, to be hard and severe in a bargain; to practice extortion; to cheat..

Blackmailer :: Blackmailer (n.) One who extorts, or endeavors to extort, money, by black mailing..