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extort   (TTS Sound)

The verb extort has 3 senses

• extort -- (obtain through intimidation)


• extort, squeeze, rack, gouge, wring -- (obtain by coercion or intimidation; "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")


• extort, wring from -- (get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner)