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Blackmailed
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.
📖 Definitions of "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.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Blackmailed"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| pressureverb | (transitive) To encourage or heavily exert force or influence. |
| blackjackverb | To strike with a blackjack or similar weapon. |
| blednoun | (in parts of French North Africa) Hinterland, field. |
| victimisedverb | of persons; taken advantage of |
| extortedverb | (transitive) To take or seize from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity. |
| extortionnoun | The practice of extorting money or other property by the use of force or threats. |
| extortionistnoun | Someone who extorts; an extortioner. |
| extortingverb | (transitive) To take or seize from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity. |
| extortionary | Of, relating to, or typical of extortion; extortionate. |
| coercionnoun | (uncountable) Actual or threatened force for the purpose of compelling action by another person; the act of coercing. |
| threatenedverb | (especially ecology, of an organism) At risk of becoming endangered in the near future. |
| kidnappedverb | subjected to kidnapping |
| coercedverb | (transitive) To use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in an attempt to compel one to act against their will. |
| extorsionnoun | (medicine) An outward rotation of a limb, organ or part of the eye. |
| extortionernoun | Someone who extorts; an extortionist. |
| browbeatenverb | intimidated or subjugated |
| kidnappingnoun | (crime) The crime of taking a person against their will, sometimes for ransom. |
| victimizedverb | Having been made into a victim or treated like one. |
| harassedverb | Subject to harassment. |
| kidnapedverb | (US) Alternative spelling of kidnapped. |
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