Usually means: Demanded payment through coercion, threats.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. extorted: Merriam-Webster
  2. extorted: Collins English Dictionary
  3. extorted: Vocabulary.com
  4. Extorted, extorted: Wordnik
  5. extorted: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. extorted: Wiktionary
  7. Extorted, extorted: Dictionary.com
  8. extorted: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Extorted: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Extorted: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Extorted: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. extorted: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. extorted: FreeDictionary.org
  14. extorted: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. extorted: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. extorted: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (extort)

verb:  (transitive) To take or seize from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity.
verb:  (transitive, law) To obtain by means of the offense of extortion.
verb:  (transitive and intransitive, medicine, ophthalmology) To twist outwards.
adjective:  (obsolete) extorted; obtained by extortion.
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