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."lawmoralsocietyguiltbusinesscommunicationactionChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗Share(Kenya) To speak ill of someone; to defame someone.""She blackmails her colleague by spreading false rumors about him to their boss." "communicationlanguageactionwordsocietymoralcultureChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
