Antonyms for extort

Grammar : Verb

Spell : ik-stawrt

Phonetic Transcription : ɪkˈstɔrt

Definition of extort

Origin : 1520s (as a past participle adj. from early 15c.), from Latin extortus, past participle of extorquere (see extortion). Related: Extorted; extorting.

verb cheat; blackmail

Example sentences :

She was trying to extort a promise that she should appear in its pages, which, as we all remember, she did.
Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

I have since thought we were ironed merely to extort this arrangement from us.
Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper

What would she do with a secret she had taken such hazards to extort?
Extract from : « The Cavalier » by George Washington Cable

This woman is some impudent impostor, who wants to extort money out of me.
Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon

Then, after a time, when wanting to extort again, he went on to another place.
Extract from : « Aino Folk-Tales » by Basil Hall Chamberlain

They would remain behind to extort it whilst fitting their ships for sea.
Extract from : « Captain Blood » by Rafael Sabatini

He had calculated to extort a price for his information only.
Extract from : « The Hound From The North » by Ridgwell Cullum

Well, but if it all comes to nothing,—if it be only a plant to extort money?
Extract from : « Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) » by Charles James Lever

Neither man nor boy could extort from him the secret he so persistently retained.
Extract from : « Up The Baltic » by Oliver Optic

It was surmised that I had met a gipsy, who probably hoped to extort money from me.
Extract from : « Tales of the Sea » by W.H.G. Kingston

Synonyms for extort

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