extort

About 0.28 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To take or seize from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity.

   to extort contributions from the vanquished

2. verb To obtain by means of the offense of extortion.
3. verb To twist outwards.
4. adjective Extorted; obtained by extortion.

Similar words

wring rack gouge wring from blackmail obtain get gain extract learn

Often followed by

from money a the confessions an more it confession

Word family

extorted extorter extorters extorting extortive extorts