extort

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The usual intention of pirates is not to kill but to extort, and they have done so successfully, to the tune of millions of dollars.

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  1. transitive verb To obtain from another by coercion or intimidation.

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  • The usual intention of pirates is not to kill but to extort, and they have done so successfully, to the tune of millions of dollars. —  IdahoStatesman.com News Updates
  • Bahamian Senator Pleasant Bridgewater was charged Friday afternoon with abetment to extort and conspiracy to extort, according to a police spokesman. —  E! Online (US) - Top Stories
  • Sen. Pleasant Bridgewater was arrested on Thursday and charged with abetment to extort and conspiracy to extort, and was released on $40,000 bail. —  Daily Telegraph | Top Stories
  • Senator Pleasant Bridgewater was arrested on Thursday and charged with abetment to extort and conspiracy to extort, and was released on $40,000 bail. —  Culture | guardian.co.uk
  • If this is a valid definition, then State agents engage in conspiracies every single day to indoctrinate, extort, defraud, attack and kill people, depending on how much of a "secret" you have to make it (especially in those instances where they hide their crimes). —  Check Your Premises
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extort:   extorted ·  extorting
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Latin extorquēre, extort-, to wrench out, extort : ex-, ex- + torquēre, to twist; see terkw- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin extortus, past participle of extorquere (later Italian estorquere = Portuguese extorquir = Old French estordre, extordre, French extorquer), twist out, wrench out or away, take away by force, extort, from ex, out, + torquere, twist: see tort. Cf. contort, detort, distort, retort.
  2. from Latin extortus, past participle: see the verb.
 

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