transitive. In early use: to exact or extort payment or ransom from (cf. ransom, n. 2a); (hence) †to oppress by exacting money (obsolete). Now…

transitive. to pill and poll (also to poll and pill): to strip (a person, place, or institution) bare by robbery or pillage; to plunder; to ruin by…

With personal object. To extort money, etc. from; to oppress with exactions. Obsolete.

transitive. To suck blood from (a person or animal); esp. (figurative): to extort money from (a person), to rob (someone) by extortion; to extort…

To practise extortion on (a person); in quot. 1561 with allusion to literal sense ‘to rack’. Obsolete.

Senses relating to rack rent, n. rack-rent, v. Now archaic and historical. transitive. To oppress (a person) by illegal or excessive demands…

figurative and transferred. To strip (a person) of his money or belongings by extortion or exaction; to pillage, plunder. Also, to do this by…

transitive. To strip (a person) clean of money or possessions (? obsolete); †to treat stingily (obsolete); to practise exaction or extortion upon…

intransitive. To eke out one's means; to be parsimonious. Also transitive to force (a person) to pay beyond his or her means. Obsolete.

transitive. To exact or take (money due) from a person. Obsolete.

To deprive (one) of something by sponging; to press (one) for money; to squeeze.

To press upon (a person, etc.) so as to exact or extort money; to fleece. Also const. of.

transitive. To oppress or exploit (a person, esp. a tenant) by exacting rent, taxes, or other payments. Also with out of: to deprive (a person) of…

transitive. To oppress or exploit (a person, esp. a tenant) by demanding high rents, taxes, or other payments. Obsolete.

To draw or extort money from. to bleed white: see white, adj. 4a colloquial. Cf. 5b.

To extract by torture; to extort. rare.

transitive. To oppress or exploit (a person) financially, esp. by paying low wages; (also) to force (a seller, manufacturer, etc.) to lower the price…

to shake down, to extort money from, to blackmail or otherwise pressurize (a person) for (occasionally of) money, etc. slang (originally and chiefly…

colloquial (chiefly British). to squeeze (someone) until the pips squeak and variants: to exact the maximum payment which a person can afford.

to bleed white: (a) intransitive (hyperbolically) to shed colourless blood (rare); (b) transitive to drain completely of resources (cf. bleed, v. 10).

transitive. slang. To obtain money from (a person) by criminal means or in exchange for homosexual favours.