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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Writhe :: Writhe (v. t.) To extort; to wring; to wrest.

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..

Wring :: Wring (v. t.) To extract or obtain by twisting and compressing; to squeeze or press (out); hence, to extort; to draw forth by violence, or against resistance or repugnance; -- usually with out or form..

Blackmailing :: Blackmailing (n.) The act or practice of extorting money by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation..

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

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..

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..

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

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

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