Tom was the victim of an extortion attempt.
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Extortion
//ɪkˈstɔːʃən//
Synonyms for "extortion" (77 found)
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Closest matches (16)
Strong matches (23)
Related words (38)
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1 entriesRelated terms
3 entriesderived
9 entriesderived from
1 entrieshas property
1 entriesis a
3 entriesrelated to
5 entriesTranslations
63 translations across 41 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- اِبْتِزَاز noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
Armenian
1 entries- շորթում noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
Belarusian
3 entries- вымага́льніцтва noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
- вымага́нне noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
- здзíрства noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
Bulgarian
1 entries- изну́дване noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
Catalan
1 entries- extorsió noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 勒索 noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
- 敲詐 /敲诈 noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
Czech
1 entries- vydírání noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
Danish
1 entries- afpresning noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
Dutch
1 entries- afpersing noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
Esperanto
2 entries- eldevigo noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
- malhonestaĵo noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
Estonian
1 entries- väljapressimine noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
Finnish
2 entries- kiristys noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
- kiskonta noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
French
1 entries- extorsion noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
Galician
1 entries- extorsión noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
Georgian
1 entries- გამოძალვა noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
German
3 entries- Erpressung noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
- Extorsion noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
- Wucher noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
Greek
2 entries- εκβιασμός noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
- χρηματολογία noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
Hungarian
3 entries- extorzió noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
- kicsikarás noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
- zsarolás noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
Indonesian
1 entries- pemerasan noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
Italian
1 entries- estorsione noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
Japanese
3 entries- たかり noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
- ゆすり noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
- 強要 noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
Kazakh
1 entries- бопсалаушылық noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
Korean
1 entries- 강요 noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
Latin
1 entries- repetundae noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
Macedonian
2 entries- изнуда noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
- уцена noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
Malay
1 entries- peras ugut noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
Middle English
1 entries- extorcion noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- utpressing noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
Persian
1 entries- اخاذی noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
Polish
2 entries- wymuszenie noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
- zdzierstwo noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
Portuguese
1 entries- extorsão noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
Romanian
1 entries- extorcare noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
Russian
1 entries- вымога́тельство noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- ȉznuda noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
- ȕcena noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
- ȕcjena noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
- и̏знуда noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
Slovak
1 entries- vydieranie noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
Slovene
1 entries- izsiljevanje noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
Spanish
1 entries- extorsión noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
Swedish
1 entries- utpressning noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
Tagalog
2 entries- kikil noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
- pangingikil noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
Turkish
2 entries- haraç noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
- şantaj noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
Ukrainian
2 entries- вимага́ння noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
- зди́рство noun (the practice of extorting money or other property)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
Forensic linguists, recognizing that no two people use language in exactly the same way, will examine the idiolect of an extortion letter to determine authorship.
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This is extortion.
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I consider that extortion.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.