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1. Obtain through intimidation
    
2. Obtain by coercion or intimidation
   "They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss"
   - squeeze, rack, gouge, wring
    
3. Get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner
   - wring from

Derived forms: extorts, extorted, extorting

See also: extortion

Type of: fleece, gazump [Brit], hook, obtain, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge, take

Encyclopedia: Extort