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extorting

verb

Meaning

  1. To take or seize off an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity
  2. To obtain by means of the offense of extortion.
  3. To twist outwards.

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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