extort
verb /ɪkˈstɔːt/
/ɪkˈstɔːrt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they extort | /ɪkˈstɔːt/ /ɪkˈstɔːrt/ |
| he / she / it extorts | /ɪkˈstɔːts/ /ɪkˈstɔːrts/ |
| past simple extorted | /ɪkˈstɔːtɪd/ /ɪkˈstɔːrtɪd/ |
| past participle extorted | /ɪkˈstɔːtɪd/ /ɪkˈstɔːrtɪd/ |
| -ing form extorting | /ɪkˈstɔːtɪŋ/ /ɪkˈstɔːrtɪŋ/ |
- extort something (from somebody) to make somebody give you something by threatening them
- The gang extorted money from over 30 local businesses.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryExtort is used with these nouns as the object:- money
Word Originearly 16th cent.: from Latin extort- ‘wrested’, from the verb extorquere, from ex- ‘out’ + torquere ‘to twist’.