blackmailed
verb
- 1
To extort money or favors from (a person) by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, such as injury to reputation, distress of mind, false accusation, etc.
“He blackmailed a businesswoman by threatening to expose an alleged fraud.”
- 2
(Kenya) To speak ill of someone; to defame someone.
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