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

Extort :: 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..

Outwrest :: Outwrest (v. t.) To extort; to draw from or forth by violence.

Extorter :: Extorter (n.) One who practices extortion.

Extortion :: Extortion (n.) The act of extorting; the act or practice of wresting anything from a person by force, by threats, or by any undue exercise of power; undue exaction; overcharge..

Extortionary :: Extortionary (a.) Extortionate.

Extortion :: Extortion (n.) The offense committed by an officer who corruptly claims and takes, as his fee, money, or other thing of value, that is not due, or more than is due, or before it is due..

Blackmailing :: Blackmailing (n.) The act or practice of extorting money by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation..

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

Extortioner :: Extortioner (n.) One who practices extortion.

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

Blackmail :: Blackmail (v. t.) To extort money from by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation, distress of mind, etc.; as, to blackmail a merchant by threatening to expose an alleged fraud..

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

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

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

Pollage :: Pollage (n.) A head or poll tax; hence, extortion..

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

Force :: Force (n.) To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; -- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc..

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

Extorting :: Extorting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Extor.

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