MEANING
To obtain money, a concession, or information through coercion or threats.
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Words that belong together
- extort money
- extort a confession
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They extorted the confession by threatening his family.
She refused to call the payment a gift when it had been extorted.
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Word forms
- Base
- extort
- Past tense
- extorted
- Past participle
- extorted
- Present participle
- extorting
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- extort
- Present continuous
- am/is/are extorting
- Present perfect
- have/has extorted
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been extorting
- Past
- extorted
- Past continuous
- was/were extorting
- Past perfect
- had extorted
- Past perfect continuous
- had been extorting
- Future
- will extort
- Future continuous
- will be extorting
- Future perfect
- will have extorted
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been extorting
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: extort; extorts; extorted; extorted; extorting Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: extorts.
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