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

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

Extort :: Extort (p. p. & a.) Extorted.

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

Rack :: Rack (v. t.) To stretch or strain, in a figurative sense; hence, to harass, or oppress by extortion..

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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..

Rack :: Rack (a.) That which is extorted; exaction.

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..

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

Extortionate :: Extortionate (a.) Characterized by extortion; oppressive; hard.

Vampire :: Vampire (n.) Fig.: One who lives by preying on others; an extortioner; a bloodsucker.

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

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