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English to English preposition
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Extorted. |  | source: webster1913 verb
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obtain through intimidation | | source: wordnet30
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obtain by coercion or intimidation | | Example: 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
source: wordnet30
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get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner | | source: wordnet30
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To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact; as, to extort contributions from the vanquished; to extort confessions of guilt; to extort a promise; to extort payment of a debt. | | source: webster1913
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To practice extortion. | | source: webster1913
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