Synonyms for extort
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : ik-stawrt |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɪkˈstɔrt |
Top 10 synonyms for extort Other synonyms for the word extort
Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for extort
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