Extort

[ɪk'stɔːt;ek-] or [ɪk'stɔrt]

解釋/意思:

(verb.) get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner.

(verb.) obtain by coercion or intimidation; 'They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss'; 'They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him'.

(verb.) obtain through intimidation.

杰西整理--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To get by the offense of extortion. See Extortion, 2.

(v. i.) To practice extortion.

(p. p. & a.) Extorted.

手打:利

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. Exact, wrest, wring, wrench, force, get by force.

整理:温弗雷德

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Wring, despoil, fleece, exact, express, squeeze_out, wrench, wrest, extract

ANT:Coax, wheedle, cajole, cheat

伊诺克校對

解釋/意思:

v.t. to gain or draw from by compulsion or violence.—p.adj. wrongfully obtained.—adj. Extors′ive serving or tending to extort.—adv. Extors′ively.—n. Extor′tion illegal or oppressive exaction: that which is extorted.—adjs. Extor′tionary pertaining to or implying extortion; Extor′tionāte oppressive.—ns. Extor′tioner one who practises extortion; Extor′tionist.—adj. Extor′tionous.

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