extort

extort is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 13 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. 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.
2. transitive verb. To get by the offense of extortion. See Extortion, 2.
3. intransitive verb. To practice extortion.
4. participial adjectivedjectiveectivest participial adjectivedjectiveectiverticiple & adjective. Extorted.
5. verb. get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner
6. verb. 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"

   Synonyms: gouge, rack, squeeze, wring

7. verb. obtain through intimidation

Synonyms

gouge, rack, squeeze, wring

Common word forms

extorts, extorted, extorter, extorting

Words from these letters

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