| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To cadge, snatch or steal.[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Present participle conjugation of the verb extort.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (extort) | 1. Obtain through intimidation.[Wordnet]. 2. Obtain by coercion or intimidation; "They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss".[Wordnet]. 3. Get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner.[Wordnet]. 4. To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact; as, to extort contributions from the vanquished; to extort confessions of guilt; to extort a promise; to extort payment of a debt.[Websters]. 5. To get by the offense of extortion.[Websters]. 6. To practice extortion.[Websters]. 7. Extorted.[Websters]. 8. Base verb from the following inflections: extorting, extorted, extorts, extorter, extorters, extortingly and extortedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Sources: compiled from various sources, (under license) copyright 2008. | Top | |
Date "EXTORTING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1690. (references) |
Specialty Definition: EXTORTING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Wresting from by force or undue exercise of power.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] Present participle of extort. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
