Extorted

verb

Word Frequency: 0.3

Definitions

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

"to extort a promise"

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

3.verbTo twist outwards.

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