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

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..

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

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

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

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

Poler :: Poler (n.) An extortioner. See Poller.

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

Screw :: Screw (v. t.) Hence: To practice extortion upon; to oppress by unreasonable or extortionate exactions.

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

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

Extortionary :: Extortionary (a.) Extortionate.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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