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extort
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
To obtain by means of the offense of extortion
{v} to get by force, wrest, take too much
to obtain by violence, threats, compulsion, or the subjection of another to some necessity
{f} obtain (money, information, etc.) through threat or intimidation, blackmail
Extorted
If someone extorts money from you, they get it from you using force, threats, or other unfair or illegal means. Corrupt government officials were extorting money from him Her kidnapper extorted a £175,000 ransom for her release. = extract. to illegally force someone to give you something, especially money, by threatening them blackmail extort sth from sb (past participle of extorquere, from torquere )
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"
obtain through intimidation
get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner 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"
To get by the offense of extortion
See Extortion, 2
get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner
To practice extortion

    Etymologie

    () Middle English gon, from Old English gān, from Proto-Germanic *gānan (compare West Frisian gean, Dutch gaan, German gehen, Danish gå), from Proto-Indo-European *g̑ʰēh- 'to leave' (compare Albanian ngaj 'to run', Ancient Greek kikhānein 'to meet with, arrive at', Avestan zazāmi 'I leave off', Sanskrit jáhāti 'he leaves'). Inherited past tense forms (compare Old English ēode), however, have since the 15th century been replaced by forms from Old English wendan 'to go, depart, wend'; this process is called suppletion. * Detailed Wikipedia article on go’s etymology Go, along with do, make, and to a lesser extent other English verbs, is often used as a substitute verb for a verb used previously or one that is implied, in the same way a pronoun substitutes for a noun. For example: : Chris: Then he goes like this: (Chris waves arms around, implying the phrase means Then he moves his arms like this).
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