extort 的定义
- Law. to wrest or wring from a person by violence, intimidation, or abuse of authority; obtain by force, torture, threat, or the like.to take illegally by reason of one's office.
- to compel of a person or thing: Her wit and intelligence extorted their admiration.
extort 近义词
cheat; blackmail
更多extort例句
- By the 1980s, agents learned that he was supervising a street crew that specialized in extorting well-off business owners.
- In the middle of the year, a swelling wave of cryptocurrency scams invoked the coronavirus to extort or blackmail people.
- Falwell claims Liberty damaged his reputation, alleging the university accepted without verifying what he called false statements made by a man who had an affair with Falwell’s wife and attempted to extort the couple, according to the complaint.
- Many of these bribes happened at makeshift roadblocks set up by SARS officers in order to extort drivers and passengers.
- In discussions monitored by the FBI, the hackers said they had hoped to extort $4 million from Tesla via the plot.
- Kellner was also charged with attempting to extort the Lebovits family.
- Or a stranger willing to let you use their cellphone to call your family might save their number and use it to extort them later.
- What Republicans will attempt to extort from the White House will be decided at their retreat in January.
- They say he tried to extort more money from them on the way out of Syria, but Mousa engaged him angrily in Arabic.
- Instead, it would rather sabotage the game and try to extort its way to a victory.
- One day some commissioners called at her cell, hoping to extort from her the secret of her husband's retreat.
- In reality, Alleyn wanted to extort a larger rental than £14 for the property, which had greatly increased in value.
- His prisoners were tied up and beaten with naked cutlasses in order to extort information about their concealed hoards.
- But as it was, the lady had sufficient power to extort a promise that I would devote myself to the work.
- Besides, how could he be sure that Billy would not play upon his fears to extort further sums?