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Verb: extort  ik'stort
  1. (crime) obtain through intimidation
    "The gang extorted protection money from local businesses"
     
  2. Obtain by coercion or intimidation
    "They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss";
    - squeeze, rack [archaic], gouge [informal], wring
     
  3. Get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner
    "The police extorted a confession from the suspect";
    - wring from

Derived forms: extorted, extorting, extorts

Type of: fleece [informal], gouge [informal], obtain, overcharge, pluck [informal], rip off [informal], rob, skin [informal], soak [informal], surcharge, take

Encyclopedia: Extort