Extort

Verb

Definitionen

1.VerbTo take or seize from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity.

"to extort contributions from the vanquished; to extort confessions of guilt; to extort a promise; to extort payment of a debt"

2.VerbTo obtain by means of the offense of extortion.

3.VerbTo twist outwards.

4.Adjectiveextorted; obtained by extortion.

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