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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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Extortionary :: Extortionary (a.) Extortionate.

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

Poll :: Poll (v. t.) To extort from; to plunder; to strip.

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

Torture :: Torture (n.) Especially, severe pain inflicted judicially, either as punishment for a crime, or for the purpose of extorting a confession from an accused person, as by water or fire, by the boot or thumbkin, or by the rack or wheel..

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

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

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

Rapacity :: Rapacity (n.) The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain.

Expression :: Expression (n.) The act of expressing; the act of forcing out by pressure; as, the expression of juices or oils; also, of extorting or eliciting; as, a forcible expression of truth..

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

Vampirism :: Vampirism (n.) Fig.: The practice of extortion.

Boot :: Boot (n.) An instrument of torture for the leg, formerly used to extort confessions, particularly in Scotland..

Screw :: Screw (n.) An extortioner; a sharp bargainer; a skinflint; a niggard.

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

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..

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..

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

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

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