English to English
preposition
- Extorted.
source: Webster 1913
verb
- obtain through intimidation
source: WordNet 3.0
- 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.
source: WordNet 3.0
- get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner
source: WordNet 3.0
- 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.
source: Webster 1913
- To practice extortion.
source: Webster 1913
English to Tagalog
verb
- [ecstórt] Mangagaw; manggahasà; maniil; manulisan
source: Diccionario Ingles-Español-Tagalog
