Extort has 5 different meanings across 1 category:
Verb
Verb
1
obtain through intimidation
2
obtain by coercion or intimidation
"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"
3
get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner
4
To take or seize off an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity
Adjective
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