• v.
    ⦿obtain by coercion or intimidation
    lexical concept
  • 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

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:extort
  2. enl:gouge
  3. enl:rack
  4. enl:squeeze
  5. enl:wring
wn:interlingual indexili:i32946
wn:eq synonymdn:afpresse§1

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelextortgougeracksqueezewring