Pronunciations (2)
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/ɪkˈstɔː(ɹ)t/
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ɪkˈstɔː(ɹ)t
Verb
To take or seize from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity.
Usage- Transitive
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to extort contributions from the vanquished
to extort confessions of guilt
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to extort a promise
to extort payment of a debt
The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties!
To obtain by means of the offense of extortion.
Usage- Transitive
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Weirdly, Renton doesn’t look too much older and the same also goes for Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), who has exchanged heroin for cocaine and nowadays runs an escort-and-blackmail business, secretly videoing clients and extorting money, working with his female business partner, Veronika (Anjela Nedyalkova).
To twist outwards.
Usage- Intransitive
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Adjective
Extorted; obtained by extortion.
Usage- not-comparable
- Obsolete
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Hauing great Lordships got and goodly farmes, Through strong oppression of his powre extort.
Verb
obtain through intimidation
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obtain by coercion or intimidation
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They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss
They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him
get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner
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