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Extort
//ɪkˈstɔː(ɹ)t//
Synonyms for "extort" (102 found)
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Closest matches (21)
Strong matches (30)
Related words (51)
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1 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
9 entriesderived from
1 entrieshas context
3 entriesmanner of
3 entriesrelated to
5 entriesTranslations
56 translations across 21 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- շորթել verb (to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity)
Bulgarian
1 entries- изтръгвам verb (to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity)
Catalan
1 entries- extorquir verb (to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 勒索 verb (to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity)
- 勒索 verb (to obtain by means of the offense of extortion)
- 敲詐 /敲诈 verb (to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity)
- 敲詐 /敲诈 verb (to obtain by means of the offense of extortion)
Danish
3 entries- afpresse verb (to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity)
- aftvinge verb (to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity)
- fravriste verb (to obtain by means of the offense of extortion)
Finnish
3 entries- kiristää verb (to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity)
- kiristää verb (to obtain by means of the offense of extortion)
- riistää verb (to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity)
French
1 entries- extorquer verb (to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity)
Galician
1 entries- extorsionar verb (to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity)
German
1 entries- erpressen verb (to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity)
Hindi
2 entries- ऐंठना verb (to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity)
- ऐंठना verb (to obtain by means of the offense of extortion)
Hungarian
3 entries- kicsikar verb (to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity)
- kikényszerít verb (to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity)
- kizsarol verb (to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity)
Italian
4 entries- carpire verb (to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity)
- estorcere verb (to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity)
- spillare verb (to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity)
- spillare verb (to twist outwards)
Khmer
4 entries- កំហែងយក verb (to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity)
- កំហែងយក verb (to obtain by means of the offense of extortion)
- ឆាំង verb (to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity)
- ឆាំង verb (to obtain by means of the offense of extortion)
Latin
1 entries- extorqueō verb (to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity)
Māori
2 entries- apo verb (to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity)
- kōhaki verb (to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- utpresse verb (to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity)
Polish
4 entries- wykręcać verb (to twist outwards)
- wykręcić verb (to twist outwards)
- wymusić verb (to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity)
- wymusić verb (to obtain by means of the offense of extortion)
Portuguese
2 entries- extorquir verb (to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity)
- extorquir verb (to obtain by means of the offense of extortion)
Russian
4 entries- вымога́ть verb (to obtain by means of the offense of extortion)
- выпы́тывать verb (to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity)
- вырыва́ть verb (to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity)
- отжимать verb (to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity)
Spanish
3 entries- extorsionar verb (to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity)
- extorsionar verb (to wrest from an unwilling person by undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity)
- extorsionar verb (to obtain by means of the offense of extortion)
Thai
2 entries- รีดไถ verb (to obtain by means of the offense of extortion)
- ไถ verb (to obtain by means of the offense of extortion)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
to extort contributions from the vanquished
Source: wiktionary
to extort confessions of guilt
Source: wiktionary
to extort a promise
Source: wiktionary
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.