Usually means: Obtaining something through coercion, threats.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word extorting:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. extorting: Merriam-Webster
  2. extorting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. extorting: Vocabulary.com
  4. Extorting, extorting: Wordnik
  5. extorting: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. extorting: Wiktionary
  7. Extorting, extorting: Dictionary.com
  8. extorting: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Extorting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Extorting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. extorting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. extorting: FreeDictionary.org
  13. extorting: TheFreeDictionary.com

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