verb🔗ShareTo 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."lawbusinessmoralguiltsocietypoliceactionChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗Share(Kenya) To speak ill of someone; to defame someone.""Instead of discussing the problem directly, she was blackmailing her classmate by spreading rumors about them." "communicationlanguagewordactionmoralsocietylawguiltnegativeChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareThe act of one who blackmails."The company reported the employee's blackmailing to the police after he threatened to release confidential information unless they paid him a large sum of money. "actionlawbusinessmoralChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
