Synonyms for extort
Definitions
- v. 1
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 payment of a debt
Related words
- Word family
- extorter extortion extortionate extortionist extortive
Forms
- Past participle
- extorted
e.g. extorted → squeezed, wrested, forced, gouged…
Example sentences
- rack This is exactly where I want the towel rack to be.
- gouge I will cut off his tongue and gouge out his eyes!
- wrest Ask for the moon and I shall wrest it from the heavens.
- extract Algeria needs to use solar energy to extract water.
By length
- 4 letters
- rack1
- 5 letters
- force1, exact2, wring1, gouge1, wrest1
- 6 letters
- wrench1, fleece1
- 7 letters
- extract2, squeeze1
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (exact2 = 2 syllables).