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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

Wrest :: Wrest (v. t.) To turn; to twist; esp., to twist or extort by violence; to pull of force away by, or as if by, violent wringing or twisting..

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

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

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

Exaction :: Exaction (n.) The act of demanding with authority, and compelling to pay or yield; compulsion to give or furnish; a levying by force; a driving to compliance; as, the exaction to tribute or of obedience; hence, extortion..

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

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

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

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

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

Extortious :: Extortious (a.) Extortionate.

Rack :: Rack (a.) An engine of torture, consisting of a large frame, upon which the body was gradually stretched until, sometimes, the joints were dislocated; -- formerly used judicially for extorting confessions from criminals or suspected persons..

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