verb🔗ShareTo 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"policegovernmentlawactioninhumanstateChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo obtain by means of the offense of extortion."The bully was extorting lunch money from the younger students by threatening to beat them up. "lawgovernmentpoliceguiltmoralChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗ShareTo twist outwards."The bully was extorting lunch money from the younger kids by threatening to beat them up. "lawpolicegovernmentChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading