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

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..

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..

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

Griper :: Griper (a.) One who gripes; an oppressor; an extortioner.

Extort :: Extort (v. t.) To get by the offense of extortion. See Extortion, 2..

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

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

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..

Extortionary :: Extortionary (a.) Extortionate.

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

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

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

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..

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.

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

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..

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..

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..

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