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Extorts
To take or seize off an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity
📖 Definitions of "Extorts"
verb
- 1
To take or seize off an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity
"to extort a promise"
- 2
To obtain by means of the offense of extortion.
- 3
To twist outwards.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Extorts"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| wringverb | (transitive) Often followed by out: to squeeze or twist (something moist) tightly so that liquid is forced out. |
| rackverb | To place in or hang on a rack. |
| gougeverb | (transitive) To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge. |
| wring fromverb | get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner |
| coercesverb | (transitive) To use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in an attempt to compel one to act against their will. |
| embezzlesverb | (law, business) To steal or misappropriate money that one has been trusted with, especially to steal money from the organisation for which one works. |
| laundersverb | To wash; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron. |
| kidnapsverb | (transitive) To seize or detain a person unlawfully and move or conceal them; sometimes for ransom. |
| confiscatesverb | (transitive) To use one's authority to lay claim to and separate a possession from its holder. |
| colludesverb | (intransitive) to act in concert with; to conspire |
| bilksverb | (transitive) To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone). |
| hoodwinksverb | (transitive, figuratively) To deceive using a disguise; to bewile, dupe, mislead. |
| enslavesverb | (transitive) To make subservient; to strip one of freedom; enthrall. |
| blackmailsverb | (transitive) 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. |
| smugglesverb | (transitive, intransitive) To import or export, illicitly or by stealth, without paying lawful customs charges or duties |
| defraudsverb | (transitive) To obtain money or property from (a person) by fraud; to swindle. |
| browbeatsverb | (transitive) To bully in an intimidating, bossy, or supercilious way. |
| connivesverb | (intransitive) To secretly cooperate with other people in order to commit a crime or other wrongdoing; to collude, to conspire. |
| beheadsverb | (transitive) To deliberately remove the head of; to cut off (someone's) head. |
| harassesverb | (specifically) To persistently bother (someone, or a group of people) physically or psychologically when such behaviour is illegal and/or unwanted, especially over an extended period. |
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