extort

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin extortus, past participle of extorquere (“to twist or wrench out, to extort”); from ex (“out”) + -tort, from torqueō (“twist, turn”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɪkˈstɔː(ɹ)t/ Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t === Verb === extort (third-person singular simple present extorts, present participle extorting, simple past and past participle extorted) (transitive) To take or seize from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity. (transitive, law) To obtain by means of the offense of extortion. (transitive and intransitive, medicine, ophthalmology) To twist outwards. ==== Synonyms ==== (take by force): wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== intort === Adjective === extort (not comparable) (obsolete) extorted; obtained by extortion. === References === “extort”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. “extort”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.