extort

Pronunciation: /ɪkˈstɔː(ɹ)t/

The English word “extort” has 4 meanings listed here.

verb

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 obtain by means of the offense of extortion.
To twist outwards.

adjective

Extorted; obtained by extortion.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin extortus, past participle of extorquere (“to twist or wrench out, to extort”); from ex (“out”) + -tort, from torqueō (“twist, turn”).

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