extortex‧tort /ɪkˈstɔːt $ -ɔːrt/ verb [transitive] 
Rebels extorted money from local villagers.—extortion /ɪkˈstɔːʃən $ -ɔːr-/ noun [uncountable]: He faces charges of kidnapping and extortion.—extortionist noun [countable]
WORD ORIGINextort
Origin:
1400-1500 Latin past participle of extorquere, from torquere ‘to twist’VERB TABLE
extort
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | extort |
| he, she, it | extorts | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | extorted |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have extorted |
| he, she, it | has extorted | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had extorted |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will extort |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have extorted |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am extorting |
| he, she, it | is extorting | |
| you, we, they | are extorting | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was extorting |
| you, we, they | were extorting | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been extorting |
| he, she, it | has been extorting | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been extorting |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be extorting |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been extorting |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- For years the gang extorted money from local storekeepers.
- He sought to extort money by threatening to reveal secrets about his boss's private life.
- The Mafia makes most of its money from prostitution and extorting money from small businesses.
- The terrorist groups have been extorting hundreds of millions of dollars.
- But he can not extort blessings here.
- He was arrested by police, who he said, planted cannabis on him to extort a bribe.
- It's not as if there was a stash of notes that he could extort from Stone and take away with him.
- Jackson, 22, was arrested earlier this year and charged with attempting to extort $ 40 million from Cosby.
- Lear pretends to be offering a gift, but is in fact extorting a bribe.
- Read in studio A bogus policeman has tried to abduct two children and to extort an on-the-spot fine from a driver.
- There isn't the money left in Deptford to extort.
Longman Language Activatorto get something from someone by using force or threats
informal to make someone give you something such as money or information by persuading them, tricking them, or threatening them: · They won't stop till they've succeeded in squeezing every last penny out of you.· The police did everything they could to get the name of his accomplice out of him, but he wouldn't talk.
to illegally force someone to give you money by frightening or threatening them: · The terrorist groups have been extorting hundreds of millions of dollars.extort money from/out of somebody: · The Mafia makes most of its money from prostitution and extorting money from small businesses.
to threaten someone in order to get money from them to force someone to give you money or do what you want, by threatening to tell people about something that they want to keep secret: · You cannot blackmail a man who has nothing to hide.· The priest was being blackmailed by a woman who said he was the father of her child.blackmail somebody into (doing) something: · She had tried to use the photographs to blackmail him into marrying her.· We will not be blackmailed into silence.
to get money from someone by threatening them: · He sought to extort money by threatening to reveal secrets about his boss's private life.extort something from somebody: · For years the gang extorted money from local storekeepers.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Rebels extorted money from local villagers.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB
to illegally force someone to give you something, especially money, by threatening themextort something from somebody Rebels extorted money from local villagers.· At first, she was threatened by local mafias, which tried to extort money.
Rebels extorted money from local villagers.—extortion /ɪkˈstɔːʃən $ -ɔːr-/ noun [uncountable]: He faces charges of kidnapping and extortion.—extortionist noun [countable]