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/ɪkˈstɔː(ɹ)t/ · 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..
to extort contributions from the vanquished
to extort confessions of guilt
to extort a promise
to extort payment of a debt
The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties!
Weirdly, Renton doesn’t look too much older and the same also goes for Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), who has exchanged heroin for cocaine and nowadays runs an escort-and-blackmail business, secretly videoing clients and extorting money, working with his female business partner, Veronika (Anjela Nedyalkova).
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Use extort when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Extort means (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..
Common synonyms include wrench away, to tear away, to wring, to exact.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
to extort contributions from the vanquished
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