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Extort

//ɪkˈstɔː(ɹ)t// adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    extorted; obtained by extortion. not-comparable, obsolete

    "Hauing great Lordships got and goodly farmes, Through strong oppression of his powre extort."

Verb
  1. 1
    To take or seize from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity. transitive

    "to extort contributions from the vanquished"

  2. 2
    get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner wordnet
  3. 3
    To obtain by means of the offense of extortion. transitive

    "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)."

  4. 4
    obtain by coercion or intimidation wordnet
  5. 5
    To twist outwards. intransitive, transitive
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  1. 6
    obtain through intimidation wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin extortus, past participle of extorquere (“to twist or wrench out, to extort”); from ex (“out”) + -tort, from torqueō (“twist, turn”).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin extortus, past participle of extorquere (“to twist or wrench out, to extort”); from ex (“out”) + -tort, from torqueō (“twist, turn”).

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