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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▸ 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.
▸ Also see extort
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